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All must pay the debt of nature.Annie Proulx
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The thing American people fear about corporations is that they might achieve too much power. We have an antipathy to power even as we admire it.Annie Proulx
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Inside Duquet something like a tightly closed pine cone licked by fire opened abruptly and he exploded with incensed and uncontrollable fury, a life’s pent-up rage. ‘No one helped me, ’ he shrieked, ‘I did everything myself. I endured. I contended with powerful men. I suffered in the wilderness. I accepted the risk I might die. No one helped me! ’ The boy’s gaze shifted, the fever-boiled eyes following Duquet’s rising arm closing only when the tomahawk split his brain. .Annie Proulx
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In every life there are events that reshape one's sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed.Annie Proulx