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- The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are…
- You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life…
- Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy…
- Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at…
- The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get…
- And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in…
- He was just hungry, Papa. He's going to die. He's going to die anyway. He's so scared, Papa. The man squatted and looked at him.…
- She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save…
- They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais…
- They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up…
- Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen…
- I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its…
- Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of…
- He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight…
- My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a…
- You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've…
- He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false…
- Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.
- It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better…
- What is it? Nothing. I had a bad dream. What did you dream about? Nothing. Are you okay? No. He put his arms around him…
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold