James W. Hall Quotes

• “How his family was killed. Fakhri and his thugs raiding villages, burning, raping. Sunnis, Shi’a, Alawites, Christians, everybody killing everybody else. People say the Mafia’s bad. Mafia’s nothing next to those fucking religions.”

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• “isn’t the greatest loss in life,’” Lawton said to Anne. “‘The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

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• “If he could not find the exact words for something, it did not fully exist. And if he could say it well enough, almost anything was possible. X-88”

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• “thuds”

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• “Because these characters perform against the vast backdrops of American politics and social upheaval, and because their personal destinies, their wishes, and their dreams are inextricably fused with the largest and most crucial concerns of the nation, Scarlett and Mitch and Jack and Scout and the others cannot help but stir us. They are ordinary American folks from humble roots who have answered some resounding call and risen beyond their limitations to impossible heights. If their battles had been smaller, less important, less connected to the national pulse, frankly, most of us wouldn’t have given a damn.”

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• “You start thinking about Yeats, him saying that life was a long preparation for something that never happens. You just got to wait it out.”

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