They waited.
The door did not open.
The rain did not stop.
The darkness made a tent and covered them completely.

Timothy Findley

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Complaints about reality are immature.

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...with every new manoeuvre, the light was growing dimmer--fading by numbers as well as strength--and the sound could no longer be heard, but only the pulse of it--seen going out in the darkness--losing its edges--caving in at its centre--webbing, now, as if a spider was spinning against the rain--until the last few strands of brightness fell--and were extinguished--silenced and removed from life and from all that lives forever.
And the bell tolled--but the ark, as ever, was adamant. Its shape had taken on a voice. And the voice said: no.

Timothy Findley

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People can only be found in what they do.

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I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they'll remember we were human beings

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... too much brooding, not enough doing.

Timothy Findley

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Me?" said Bragg. "I'm not alive. Revived, from time to time - maybe. but not alive."

Liar."

Try me."

You forget, Mister Bragg - Stu honey - Stuart darling - Bragg baby. I already have."

They had almost reached their destination.

Col said: "I don't have burn marks for nothing, my dear. I don't have these scars by chance. I'm covered with your fingerprints. Covered from head to toe and back again on the other side."

You sound just like Minna," said Bragg.

I know," Col said. "I know I do. I've been practising.

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What you people who weren't yet born can never know is what it meant to sleep in cities under silent falls of snow when all night long the only sounds you heard were dogs that parked at trains that passed so far away they took a short cut through your dreams and no one even woke. It was the war that changed that. It was. After the Great War for Civilization - sleep was different everywhere...

Timothy Findley


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I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.

Timothy Findley


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He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.

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