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He said that the music—its order and precision—helped him find the patterns in things—the way through the confusion of events and opinions to direction, to order, and beyond, to inspiration.
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David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.
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If soldiering did not interest him, the soldiers themselves were another matter. He loved to sit with the men and draw out their first-hand stories of past campaigns.
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the greatest cruelty of madness is the power it has to blot out a person.
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In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure.
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Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.
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David was at his best in group settings, soldier enough to join in the raucous jests, king enough to make it matter that he remembered some moments of bravery or sacrifice, and praised each man accordingly.
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Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.
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You English palisade yourselves up behind 'must nots' and I commence to think it is a barren fortress in which you wall yourselves. - Caleb
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