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Often Quotes by William Maxwell
- If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.
- The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice,
- People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail…
- What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a…
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