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Annie Proulx _ The Shipping News
It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.
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Annie Proulx _ The Shipping News
A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.
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Annie Proulx _ The Shipping News
We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.
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Annie Proulx _ The Shipping News
Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.
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Annie Proulx _ The Shipping News
And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.
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Annie Proulx _ The Shipping News
We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.
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Annie Proulx _ The Shipping News
They say that doing ten sums a day prevents you from becoming senile. But by that argument bankers should be geniuses. That's not right. Thickest heads in the world.
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Annie Proulx _ The Shipping News
If a piece ofknotted string can unleash the wind and if a drowned man can awaken... then I believe a broken man can heal.
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Annie Proulx _ The Shipping News
You know, the Chinese have forgotten more about sailing than the rest of the world ever knew.
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Annie Proulx _ The Shipping News
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 few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought calm and gentle pleasure. Were his fingers closing on that one?
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Annie Proulx _ The Shipping News
No, they didn't have any money, the sea was dangerous and men were lost, but it was a satisfying life in a way people today do not understand. There was a joinery of lives all worked together, smooth in places, or lumpy, but joined. The work and the living you did was the same things, not separated out like today.
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Annie Proulx _ The Shipping News
Where are the reporters of yesteryear?' he muttered, 'the nail biting, acerbic, alcoholic nighthawk bastards who truly knew how to write?
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