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“He was staring off across the long broad fields, raising his eyes above the red clay soil to the horizon, looking across the fiery-red…

— Jim Thompson

“I once had been in the middle of a mass chaos and terrible riots. There, I witnessed how men were truly such as beasts…

— Toba Beta

“He never looked better, nor had he been loved more, not had the breeding of his animals been wilder. There was a slaughtering of…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The people became no less than what they were to begin with—in some cases they became horrifyingly more. They were never destroyed. They were…

— Harper Lee

“Dirt is just matter out of place.”

— Robert Service

“Everything, even the dirt, was poised.”

— China Miéville

“Be like seeds; do not see dirt thrown at you as your enemy, but as ground to grow.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The lawn and drive had been crowded with the faces of those who guessed at his corruption - and he had stood on those…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“… I agree with two things: the steppe is wide—even though I’ve never been there, and the mountains, fuck, yes, the mountains are a…

— Aleksandr Voinov

“They talked about each others’ houses, and characters, and families--just as the Joneses do about the Smiths.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“he fell face first into the dirt which was a mixture of mud with a hundred years or more of chicken crap and the…

— Connor Fitzgerald

“Wayne felt a disturbance stir within him, like his stomach discovering he’d just fed it a bunch of rotten apples. Religion worried him. It…

— Brandon Sanderson