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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

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Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

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I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said.I know you didn't.I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of.I know it. There's hard less...more

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You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back...more

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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

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Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimp...more