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Famous quotes containing the words falling and/or leaves:

    In my grandmother’s house there was always chicken soup
    And talk of the old country—mud and boards,
    Poverty,
    The snow falling down and necks of lovers.
    Louis Simpson (b. 1923)

    One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)