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Mary Doria Russell _ Epitaph
Raise your sights, sugar. Aim low all you'll hit is rats, snakes and rock bottom" from Epitaph
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Mary Doria Russell _ Epitaph
A tale begins and where it ends, matters. Who tells the story and why, that makes all the difference."
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Mary Doria Russell _ Epitaph
The answer was clear, though he half-expected his hand to shrivel and turn black when he voted for a Republican.
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Mary Doria Russell _ Epitaph
It was politicians saying, "Let's you and him fight!
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Mary Doria Russell _ Epitaph
When she finished, no one clapped or even breathed, for they were still inside that sacred place that music can sometimes create.
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Mary Doria Russell _ Epitaph
I would not have voted for the man," Doc admitted, "but this-" He lifted a fine-boned hand toward the street, where small groups of Cow Boys were now tearing down Allen on horseback, shooting at the sky and racing beyond the city limits before the police could do anything about the ruckus. "This is indecent."
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Mary Doria Russell _ Epitaph
Sadie was at his side when the old desire to leave everything behind rose up in him again. "Suppose . . ." he began. "Suppose . . ." Then he moved on, one last time.
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Mary Doria Russell _ Epitaph
When a man beats his boy, he wants a son who won't buck him. He's trying to make a coward. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it works.And the hundredth boy?We can go either way. Kill the old man, or try to become a better one.
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Mary Doria Russell _ Epitaph
For five weeks, the Associated Press had provided the world with lurid coverage of the attack on Virgil Earp, which was labeled Cow Boy revenge for what was being called "the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" because it took too long to set the type for "Gunfight in the Vacant Lot behind Camillus Fly's Photography Studio Near Fremont Street.
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Mary Doria Russell _ Epitaph
Wyatt Earp had been born, and born again, and now there would be a third life, for the iron fist that had seized his soul in childhood had lost its grip at last. The long struggle for control was over, and in its place, he found a wordless acceptance of a truth he'd always known. He was bred to this anger. It had been in him since the cradle. He'd never bullied neighbors or beaten a horse. He'd never punched the front teeth out of a six-year-old's mouth or hit a woman until she begged. But he was no better than his father, and never had been. He was far, far worse.
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Mary Doria Russell _ Epitaph
Its not lying, it's remembering things the way they should have been.
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Mary Doria Russell _ Epitaph
No one who does not live with constant pain can imagine the toll it takes. The way it grinds you down. The sheer damnable tedium of it.
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