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today and in a good winter mood, someone not subject to seasonal affective disorder, someone with a generous
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An argument ensued about abundance, leisure, work, nature, and what a second girl kept calling 'the American way.' When I asked her what she meant by 'the American way,' she said, 'Basically the destruction of everything--the world, your happiness, your soul, everything. The complete package. Evil and war. That's who we are, Mr. Countryman.'
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When I think about John William now, I think about someone who followed through, and then I'm glad not to have followed through, to still be breathing, to still be here with people, to still be walking in the mountains, and to still be uncertain--even with all this cash on hand--in a way I seem to have no choice about. I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live.
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David Guterson |
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The place felt sinister, though. Your imagination can get the better of you where a road ends against a forest.
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David Guterson |
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The trick was to live here without hating yourself because all around you was hatred.
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They were taken from Anacortes on a train to a transit camp--the horse stables at the Puyallup fairgrounds. They lived in the horse stalls and slept on canvas army cots; at nine p.m. they were confined to their stalls; at ten p.m. they were made to turn out their lights, one bare bulb for each family. The cold in the stalls worked into their bones, and when it rained that night they moved their cots because of the leaks in the roof. The nex..
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No one [Islanders] trod easily upon the emotions of another where the sea licked everywhere against an endless shoreline. And this was excellent and poor at the same time-excellent because it meant most people took care, poor because it meant an inbreeding of the spirit, too much held in, regret and silent brooding, a world whose inhabitants walked in trepidation, in fear of opening up...They could not speak freely because they were cornere..
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and Miss Dietrich smiled and nodded at this and said that a girl in search of a husband should squeeze apple seeds between her fingers: if any struck the ceiling, she was sure to be happy in her quest, for apples were the fruit of love.
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love
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David Guterson |
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It ate at whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to live with it
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emotion
feelings
love
sadness
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He had visited his family the evening before, eaten dinner with Renee and Chris, his grandson, in the pretence that everything was ordinary, but in fact to service his end-game ruse. He was going over the mountains, he'd said, to hunt for quail in willow canyons, he had no particular canyons in mind, he intended to return on Thursday evening, though possibly, if the hunting was good, he would return on Friday or Saturday. The lie was open-e..
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The prospect of death in autumn, she said, was irrelevant next to its happy recognition of its participation in the life of the tree itself.
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gratefulness
life
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People appeared enormously foolish to him. He understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings and liquids.
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David Guterson |
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Tourists reminded him of other places and elicited in him a prodding doubt that living here was what he wanted.
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