Adversity Quote by Annie Proulx

“And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.” quote by Annie Proulx — Download Open image

“And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.”

Annie Proulx

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“It was as if his eye were an ear and a crackle went through it each time he shot a look at the accordion.…

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“On the stairs an image came to him. Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. Some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. And among the common bull's-eyes and peppermints a…

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“You stand there, braced. Cloud shadows race over the buff rock stacks as a projected film, casting a queasy, mottled ground rash. The air hisses and it is no local breeze but the great harsh sweep of wind from the turning of the earth. The wild country--indigo jags of mountain, grassy plain everlasting, tumbled stones like fallen cities, the flaring…

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“Thirty-six years old and this was the first time anybody ever said he'd done it right. Fog against the window like milk.”

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