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The Given Day
Dennis Lehane
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“And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.”
“Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there's another family and that's the kind you go out and find. Maybe even by accident sometimes. And they're as much blood as your first family. Maybe more so, because they don't have to look out for you and they don't have to love you. They choose to.”
“What molds us is what maims us.”
“Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any differently? Do you know the primary difference between men and gods?...Gods don't think they can become men.”
“Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men”
“He was done with every lie he'd ever allowed himself to believe, every lie he'd ever lived, every lie.”
“It was one of those sneaky days in late winter where spring came along to get a lay of the land.”
“This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything.”
“Rumors or no, Thomas, if the men strike, we'll see fecal gravity at work like never before. Ain't a man in this room who won't be covered in shit.”
“On September 7th, after the Cubs dropped Game Three, the two teams boarded the Michigan Central together to embark on the twenty-seven hour trip, and Babe Ruth got drunk and started stealing hats.”
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Book Keywords:
pettiness, society-thinking, lost-love, men, gods, self-lies, helpless, humankind
