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In 1950 the United States � with just 9 per cent of the world’s populations � was consuming 50 per cent of the world’s raw materials.
“But a father is more than a person, he’s in fact a society, the thing you grow up into.”
― Border Country
― Border Country
“When you’re young,â€� Harry said, ‘you just see things. There’s nothing much to say about them. You don’t realize then all the life that’s gone into it.”
― Border Country
― Border Country
“There’s only one real politics, and that’s politics on a weekly wage. All the rest, well. We can all talk.”
― Border Country
― Border Country
“The visitor sees beauty; the inhabitant a place where he works and has his friends.”
― Border Country
― Border Country
“When you go out first on your own. When you marry and settle. When your father dies. When your son leaves home.”
― Border Country
― Border Country
The 52 Book Club: 2025 Challenge
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Grumpy Old Books’s 2024 Year in Books
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