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I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life’s mystery and unpredictability, of life’s generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.

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I always seem to find myself fighting the law of equilibrium – the great leveling force that brings things to the mean and takes the ‘cartoonishness’ out of life. Perhaps I am doing a very unnatural thing… If Einstein were still alive I would ask him about it.

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Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

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May 2, 2024

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

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May 2, 2024

I always seem to find myself fighting the law of equilibrium – the great leveling force that brings things to the mean and takes the ‘cartoonishness’ out of life. Perhaps I am doing a very unnatural thing… If Einstein were still alive I would ask him about it.

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