When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start … - Donald Hall

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The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

Donald Hall

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.

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We learned how to love each other by loving together good things wholly outside each other.

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Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early and late daylight of June, but we cherish the increasing dark of November, which we wrap around ourselves in the prosperous warmth of wood stove, oil and electric blanket. Inside our warmth we fold ourselves, partly tuber, partly bear, in the dark and its cold - around us, outside us, safely away from us. We tuck ourselves up in the comfort of cold's opposite, warming ourslves by thought of the cold, lighting ourselves by darkness's idea.

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If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

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Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

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Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

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