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“Yet intact Ahab, back from his first voyage, once said of just such a changeable breeze, This contrast is the way of life itself. All playfully, he added, But were I God, then would every day be invariantly good. Then…

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She seemed imprisoned in her sadness.

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“ Mortality is a cause for humility, she said to me. None of us knows when he might be taken, as your blessed father…

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“Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last.”

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“What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.”

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“Time is something of an enemy" she opined, "for us mortals. And yet I love it" - she fluttered her fingers in the air…

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Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the civil rights movement and immigration. These stories, rendered through the words and eyes of a young Latina girl who came from Argentina to Marion, Alabama, are made vivid and immediate through Weaver's highly accessible drawings and dialogue. This…

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“What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?”

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“I turned from my window. Suddenly it seemed odd for my neighbors on both sides to have visitors while I had none. For the first time, I felt lonely at 'Sconset. "Let's cook," Frannie said energetically. "We will smell so good that they'll all come running." She picked up a bowl, filled it with apples from the barrel, and immediately…

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“Do you know why sailors wear gold in their ears?” Uncle asked me. “It was the law, long ago, that a sailor had to…

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“Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.”

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“What, in nature," Kit asked, "is the most beautiful thing you've seen? Or the most terrible?" "The Dismals," Giles answered promptly. "A beautiful aberration in the lay of the land--North Alabama. A section mysteriously lowered, strewn with boulders, ferny, mossy, cooler--the vegetation, they say, typical of Canada. There the creek runs clear, but all other Alabama rivers and waterways are…

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