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  1. Charles Frazier _ Nightwoods

    But Luce takes the attitude, when you start fretting the day-by- day you lose track of the long view. And the long view is, they need to learn to speak for themselves and do the best they can. For now, if they bag their own lunch and it's pickles and prunes and they say the words, all you do is put both thumbs up and say, Good job.
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  2. Charles Frazier _ Nightwoods

    No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past have nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.
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  3. Charles Frazier _ Nightwoods

    His best talent had yet to be determined, unless you counted unrealized potential.
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  4. Charles Frazier _ Nightwoods

    Ask her what she craved and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.
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  5. Charles Frazier _ Nightwoods

    The flame of urgent coupling burned hottest against the woman, no matter how romantic and high and heartsick the anguish of the man might be pitched in retrospect.
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  6. Charles Frazier _ Nightwoods

    Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past have nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't. A simple enough lesson, yet hard for Luce to learn. She couldn't
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  7. Charles Frazier _ Nightwoods

    Among themselves, they had figured out how to go about marriage so as to accomplish the least damage. The husbands lived two hours away...
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  8. Charles Frazier _ Nightwoods

    Children rediscover their parents wisdom when they finally become adults themselves.
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  9. Charles Frazier _ Nightwoods

    So, standing here looking at you, all grown up, the question I ask is simple. In the long run, how different is a goddam hot dog from a Vienna sausage?"
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  10. Charles Frazier _ Nightwoods

    How embarrassing that she ever did something that silly. But, good God, she was seventeen. At that age, we're mostly high-pitched and crazy. All urgent chemicals raging around the blood course. And that's why we do dangerous and embarrassing things, as if simultaneously we're immortal and going to die tomorrow. And that's why we look back on that time so fondly from the dimmer years to come. Remembering the days when we were like Greek gods. Mighty and idiotic.
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  11. Charles Frazier _ Nightwoods

    Lola's only nugget of wisdom to her little daughters was Never cry, never ever.
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  12. Charles Frazier _ Nightwoods

    Like when the counselor delved into your habits of using a public toilet, such as do you flush with your foot and use your elbow to open the door? If yes, woe unto you. You're crazy.
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