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1 " No escape--like life itself. "
― Will Weaver
2 " Father and son grinned at each other.His father took off his hat. His forehead was white, his haircoppery."So how's the rat race, son?""Not so bad," Walter said.His father paused a moment. "Any ... decisions yet?" hisfather said.Walter swallowed. He looked off toward town. "About ..a major, you mean?" Walter said.His father waited."Well," Walter said. His mouth went dry. He· swallowedtwice. "Well," he said, "I think I'm going to major in English."His father pursed his lips. He pulled off his work gloves onefinger at a time. "English," he said."English," Walter nodded.His father squinted. "Son, we already know English. "
― Will Weaver , A Gravestone Made of Wheat
3 " Sometimes I feel as if there's an explanation to my life that continues to escape me; that I've missed something noble, something sublime; that in some way I have cheated myself...life is so strange, so harsh. "
4 " She wrote that she, too, always felt an outsider "...even to myself. "
5 " He ran into God many times during the year: felt of him in the warm field-dirt of May; saw his face in the shiny harvest grain; heard his voice among the tops of the Norway pines. "
― Will Weaver , A Gravestone Made of Wheat: The Short Story That Inspired Sweet Land