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  1. Leif Enger _ So Brave, Young and Handsome

    He stood and nodded at the great whitening sky. "We're sure small, wouldn't you say? Takes the onus off, somehow.
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  2. Leif Enger _ So Brave, Young and Handsome

    Love is a strange fact-it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no since at all.
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  3. Leif Enger _ So Brave, Young and Handsome

    A cowboy doesn't ask for much, that's my observation. A flashy ride, a pretty girl, momentary glory...
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  4. Leif Enger _ So Brave, Young and Handsome

    In times of dread it's good to have an old man along. An old man has seen worse.
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  5. Leif Enger _ So Brave, Young and Handsome

    It's peculiar, to reach your destination," he told me. "You think you'll arrive and perform the thing you came for and depart in contentment. Instead you get there and find distance still to go.
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  6. Leif Enger _ So Brave, Young and Handsome

    You can't kill history. You can't shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that-if it's going to die, it has to die on its own
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  7. Leif Enger _ So Brave, Young and Handsome

    ...for his life seemed a curving line, capricious, moment by moment inviting grace.
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  8. Leif Enger _ So Brave, Young and Handsome

    You are no failure, on a river. The water moves regardless - for all it cares, you might be a minnow or a tadpole, a turtle on a beavered log. You might be nothing at all.
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  9. Leif Enger _ So Brave, Young and Handsome

    Sometimes it seems every woman I meet is more than a match for me.
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  10. Leif Enger _ So Brave, Young and Handsome

    I felt laden. Air itself has weight and mass, and Kansas had the most air of anywhere I'd ever been."
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  11. Leif Enger _ So Brave, Young and Handsome

    Say what you like about melodrama, it beats confusion. The truth is we ought have a chance to say a little something when it's getting dark. We ought to have a closing scene.
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  12. Leif Enger _ So Brave, Young and Handsome

    A line only gets grace when it curves, you know.
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