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“we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man moves into a shack or a cave and lets his beard grow, people will flock from miles around just to read his "no trespassing" sign”
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“The international situation is desperate, as usual.”
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.”
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: A Novel
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: A Novel
“I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.”
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without destination, without cessation, my run was often silent and empty; there were no increments, no arbitrary graduations reducing time to functional units. I abstracted and purified.”
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
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