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Richard Russo _ Nobody's Fool
They turned down the narrow alley that led to the Woohvorth's
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Richard Russo _ Nobody's Fool
Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man and one who'd been raised to accept life's mysteries-the Blessed Trinity, for one instance, a woman's reasoning, for another.
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Richard Russo _ Nobody's Fool
The best she was able to do was to reflect that people invariably exhibited the very worst side of their flawed natures when invited to put their thoughts into writing, especially when the invitation was sanctioned hit-and-run posing as democracy in action. Here
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Richard Russo _ Nobody's Fool
You want a poke in the eye with a sharp stick?" Sully offered. "You don't have a stick," Will pointed out.
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Richard Russo _ Nobody's Fool
No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed himself the vague wish that things had turned out differently, without blaming himself that they hadn't, any more than he'd blamed himself when his 1-2-3 triple never ran like it should at least once. It didn't pay to second-guess every one of life's decisions, to pretend to wisdom about the past from the safety of the present, the way so many people did when they got older. As if, given a second chance to live their lives, they'd be smarter. Sully didn't know too many people who got noticeably smarter over the course of a lifetime. Some made fewer mistakes, but in Sully's opinion that was because they couldn't go quite so fast. They had less energy, no more virtue; fewer opportunities to screw up, not more wisdom. It was Sully's policy to stick by his mistakes....
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Richard Russo _ Nobody's Fool
Maybe sheetrocking wasn't one of Sully's favorite jobs, but like most physical labor, there was a rhythm to it that you could find if you cared to look, and once you found this rhythm it'd get you through a morning. Rhythm was what Sully had counted on over the long years - that and the wisdom to understand that no job, no matter how thankless or stupid or backbreaking, could not be gotten through. The clock moved if you let it.
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Richard Russo _ Nobody's Fool
Also her perfume, which mingled with the crisp air off the lake below, creating an intoxicating mixture of damp earth and leaves and water and girl. Not woman, in Sully's opinion. Girl.
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Richard Russo _ Nobody's Fool
The nurse who came in to take her blood was the same one who'd taken her blood pressure earlier, and she slapped the flesh on Miss Beryl's arm with some annoyance, as if she'd have preferred it to assume some other shape. Miss Beryl knew just how the woman felt.
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Richard Russo _ Nobody's Fool
Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man.
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Richard Russo _ Nobody's Fool
probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it.
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Richard Russo _ Nobody's Fool
Hell, at twenty, he'd been ready to junk everything and start over too. But now, at sixty, he was less willing to throw things away that could be patched together and kept running for a few more months. He wanted to keep going forward, not stop and turn around and analyze the validity of decisions made and courses charted long ago."
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Richard Russo _ Nobody's Fool
One of the unfortunate side effects of teaching for forty years was that the task was so monumental, even in recollection, that it sometimes seemed you'd tried to teach everyone on the planet. What Miss Beryl looked for in each adult face was the evidence of some failed lesson in some distant yesterday that might predict incompetence today.
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