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There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.John Burnham Schwartz
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Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks.John Burnham Schwartz
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That a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime.. . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.John Burnham Schwartz
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Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.John Burnham Schwartz
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Because it was the endless wanting that would break you, I thought. The constant craving for a love that might never be fulfilled that would bring you low, bit by bit, until one day you'd no longer be able to recognize any part of yourself.John Burnham Schwartz