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In America, Fredericka, they don't really have trains for people. The trains here are used mainly to...

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Mark HelprinFreddy and Fredericka

The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except...

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Meindert DeJongThe Little Cow and the Turtle

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 mile...

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I woke up feeling alone, so lonely. The night before, I had cried myself to sleep. I lay there on th...

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Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streakin...

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Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that...

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Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Shadow of the Wind

I lie down on many a station platform; I stand before many a soup kitchen; I squat on many a bench;-...

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Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western Front

The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, fou...

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The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. Th...

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