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Learning may be the best thing we have. It may be all that we can truly keep, Lorie,
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There was a period when he wanted to go back, when it would have been nice to sit with Maggie a few minutes and watch her fiddle with her hair. But he chose the river, and his solitude, thinking that in time the feeling would pass, and best so: he would stop thinking about Maggie, she would stop thinking about him... But it didn't pass--all that passed were years.
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Love's a terrible price to pay for company, ain't it, Matty?" Caleb said. "I won't pay it, myself. I'd rather do without the company."
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I don't know," Goyeto said. "This is not a very strong sun."
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Of course, children were endless work. They came when you didn't want them and had needs you didn't always want to meet. Worst of all they died no matter how much you loved them. The death of her own had frozen the hope inside her harder than the wintery ground. Her hopes had frozen hard and she vowed to keep it that way, and yet she hadn't. The hopes thawed.
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His habit had been to go and meet whatever needed to be met, not to wait idly for what might approach.
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He doesn't talk much, though," she added. "I don't care whether he talks or not," Lorena said. I wouldn't marry a man just for conversation. I'd rather read and having to know how than listen to some man talk."
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It was a great annoyance to Billy that because of a long shit and a short nap he had lost his horse. But that was the truth of it and there was nothing he could do but limp along.
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You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it," Augustus said. "If you only come face-to-face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave."
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A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.
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Pat, did they get you for the embezzling?" Harmony asked.
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