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It is a counterintuitive theory, for the South and the West represent the poles of American experience—the South drowning in its past, the West looking ahead to distant frontiers in a spirit of earnest, eternal optimism. “The future always ...more
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Louis Adamic
“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
Louis Adamic

Cormac McCarthy
“The gifts of the Almighty are weighed and parceled out in a scale peculiar to himself.”
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

Nick Offerman
“Find out what makes you kinder, what opens you up and brings out the most loving, generous, and unafraid version of you—and go after those things as if nothing else matters. Because, actually, nothing else does.”
Nick Offerman, Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers

Roald Dahl
“I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.”
Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox

James Baldwin
“Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one's sense of one's own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundation.”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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