Thread: The Long Walk
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Old 12-18-2005, 11:33   #14
Mrs_W
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Mrs. W,
assuming the last sentence won't spoil the whole book, would you mind writing them here. I've been collecting wise and powerful sayings that I occasionallly pulled into good use whenever the body wants to quit.
I don't know if this falls into that category, but I still think it explains the strongest factor in how he made it. After he watches the last of his companions go on his seperate way, he ends the story with,
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I felt suddenly bereft of friends, bereft of everything, as desolate and lonely as a man could be.
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