“I've heard it said before that those who don't learn from the past are bound to repeat it, and I just don't know what I think about that. I figure I don't have too much use for it. The past will just weigh on you if you spend too much time remembering it.”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home
“It's a good thing to see that people can heal after they've been broken, that they can change and become something different from what they were before.”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home
“But since then I've learned to just go ahead and take fairness out of the equation. If you do, things stand the chance of making a whole lot more sense.”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home
“[Death is] to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.” —THOMAS WOLFE, YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home
“It was expected that men's hands would be good and calloused by reins and shovels and the hands of other men whose lives they knew by the tough skin of their handshakes.”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home
“It was like a tree had sprung up between them, a tree that was just too thick to throw their arms around.”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home
“but some of these young folks are different, and they want times to be hard so they can prove something. Who they want to prove it to I just can't say.”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home
“It was like Mama was lost in the desert and had gotten so thirsty that she was willing to see anything that might make her feel better about being lost.”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home
“and I can tell you God makes us how he needs us to be.”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home
“I’ve learned to just go ahead and take fairness out of the equation. If you do, things stand the chance of making a whole lot more sense.”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home
“the hallway to the front door where the keys to the cruiser”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home
“But that tree that grew up between them was just a gnarly old thing with thick roots that ran deep and wild and tore at the ground until it opened up, and, once it did, Julie found herself clear across a great divide from Ben, so far apart that they couldn’t even see each other from where they stood.”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home
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“But she looked—smaller. As if something in her had dwindled away, as if she had dried up. It was almost—age. Yet not quite. Could their separation have done this much damage? He doubted it. His wife, since he had seen her last, had become frail, and he did not like this; despite his animosity he felt concern.”
― Philip K. Dick, quote from Now Wait for Last Year
“Then the business game is to make profits out of others, and to prevent others from making profits out of you.”
― Jack London, quote from The Iron Heel
“We all have things we regret…decisions we make that we have to live with. You can’t dwell on them and beat yourself up for it. It doesn’t change”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Jake Undone
“I’d hoped taking her virginity in midclimax would make it easier, but I couldn’t tell if it actually had. I mean, I had mirrors. I knew how big my cock was.”
― C.L. Parker, quote from A Million Dirty Secrets
“Mountains overawe and oceans terrify, while the mystery of great forests exercises a spell peculiarly its own. But all these, at one point or another, somewhere link on intimately with human life and human experience.”
― Algernon Blackwood, quote from The Willows
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