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  1. Ann Patchett _ Run

    better to have done something, to have stood for something great and gotten shot for it than it was to never stand up for anything and die like everybody else.
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  2. Ann Patchett _ Run

    There were some people who had the ability to tell other people what was worth wanting,
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  3. Ann Patchett _ Run

    In that way the accident was like his mother's death. It did not recede so much as hover, waxing and waning at different intervals but always there. It happened in the past and it was always happening. It happened every single minute of the day.
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  4. Ann Patchett _ Run

    Life itself had been holy. We had been brought forth from nothing to see the face of God and in his life Father Sullivan had seen it miraculously for eighty-eight years. Why wouldn't it stand to reason that that this had been the whole of existence and now he would retreat back to the nothingness he had come from in order to let someone else have their turn at the view?
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  5. Ann Patchett _ Run

    Politicians never mentioned the details of life because of course the details that appealed to one person could repel another, so what you wound up with in the end were a long string of generalities, stirring platitudes that could not buy you supper.
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  6. Ann Patchett _ Run

    It was her plan to outrun all of that, and somewhere in that running she had started to fly. She no longer felt like touching all the dirt and the muck she had so patiently submitted herself to so that people would think she was a very nice girl. She was not such a very nice girl. Nobody who was very, very nice would ever work this hard to take something they wanted only for themselves.
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  7. Ann Patchett _ Run

    finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling,'" Doyle said from memory. "' Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
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  8. Ann Patchett _ Run

    It would be possible to overlook just about anything if you were trained to constantly strain forward to see the power and the glory that was waiting up ahead. What a shame it would have been to miss God while waiting for Him. The
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  9. Ann Patchett _ Run

    I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free…'" Night
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  10. Ann Patchett _ Run

    Duty-honor-country,'" he said in the voice of an old white man who'd been battered by war. "'Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
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  11. Ann Patchett _ Run

    Neither Doyle nor Sullivan had ever been to visit him at Regina Cleri, and Tip had only come one time and then left after five minutes. To Father Sullivan it was as if this part of his family, these people whom he loved, had all packed up and gone to Africa.
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  12. Ann Patchett _ Run

    His heart woke him up to remind him that in life there was never a limitless number of nights. The
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