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"Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)"
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Source: Jim Harrison (2016). “Legends of the Fall”, p.109, Atlantic Books
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