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“Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or having everything happen at once.”

“…and from your eyelids, furtively, the teardrops seep like pearls.”

““Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn’t know which was worse, the drinking or the praying. As far back as he could remember, it seemed that his father had fought the Devil all the time.””

“You will always be gathering something from the landscape without poems: then, finally, winter, to once again thin things out,”

“You sold your soul to the devil when you put on your first pair of Jimmy Choo’s, I saw it.”

“A real loser is someone who’s so afraid of not winning he doesn’t even try.”