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“Deciding to wait, Scott sat down with a pint away from the bar at a corner table and lit a cigarette. The clientele in there on Sunday afternoon were the same as most other afternoons. From middle-aged to old men, drinking and cursing at the world like it was the last bus which had just left the stop without them.”
― The Elephant Tree
― The Elephant Tree
“Everett was strange,' Sleight concedes. 'Kind of different. But him and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.”
― Into the Wild
― Into the Wild
“We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.”
― The Elephant Tree
― The Elephant Tree
“followed – even now at this moment.’ The one-time beggar”
― The Bourne Identity
― The Bourne Identity
“The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. A polite public will no more bear to read an authentic description of vice than a truly-refined English or American female will permit the word 'breeches' to be pronounced in her chaste hearing. And yet, madam, both are walking the world before our faces every day without much shocking us. If you were to blush every time they went by, what complexions you would have!”
― Vanity Fair
― Vanity Fair
Gertrudis’s 2024 Year in Books
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