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Readers' Favorite Book Quotes
Oprah's Book Club  |  February 19, 2009
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy


"He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought the world's heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world's pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower." — Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

As quoted by Alice from Bluffton, Ohio
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