Quotes by Jackson Burnett, The Past Never Ends

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“The prairie skies can always make you see more than what you believe.”

“She had learned to live light because life itself could be heavy enough.”

“Is any life so isolated that it lives only in the past and not in the present and future, too?”

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“He recognized it and knew it. In othersclients, witnesses, or sometimes adversaries, he had seen or heard it: A gesture, a phrase, or a tone which exposed unintended truth in the beat of a second.”
— Jackson Burnett, The Past Never Ends
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“A thousand years from now nobody is going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is right, but lazy. He says You live, you die and nothing you do will ever make a difference. But as long as I ...”
— Jackson Burnett, The Past Never Ends
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“The prairie skies can always make you see more than what you believe.”
— Jackson Burnett, The Past Never Ends
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“She had learned to live light because life itself could be heavy enough.”
— Jackson Burnett, The Past Never Ends
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“Is any life so isolated that it lives only in the past and not in the present and future, too?”
— Jackson Burnett, The Past Never Ends
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“I came to the state twenty years ago from the South, the gothic South. Ive heard it called that, havent you, Mister Morgan? Thought I was gettin away from all that. You know, the Tennessee Williams...”
— Jackson Burnett, The Past Never Ends
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“He recognized it and knew it. In others—clients, witnesses, or sometimes adversaries, he had seen or heard it: A gesture, a phrase, or a tone which exposed unintended truth in the beat of a second.”
— Jackson Burnett, The Past Never Ends
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“I came to the state twenty years ago from the South, the gothic South. I’ve heard it called that, haven’t you, Mister Morgan? ‘Thought I was gettin’ away from all that. You know, the Tennessee Will...”
— Jackson Burnett, The Past Never Ends
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