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It’s fierce, an’ it’s wild, an’ it’s not bothered about anybody, not even about me right. And that’s why it’s great.’
It’s fierce, an’ it’s wild, an’ it’s not bothered about anybody, not even about me right. And that’s why it’s great.’
“The greatest happiness possible to a man ... is to become civilized, to know the pageant of the past, to love the beautiful, to have just ideas of values and proportions, and then retaining his animal spirits and appetites, to live in a wilderness, - J. Frank Dobie”
― Wilderness and the American Mind - REVISED EDITION
― Wilderness and the American Mind - REVISED EDITION
“If the world is divided into Undesirables and You, then you are always going to need a wall to keep them out.”
― Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
― Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
“If Sartre was right that hell is other people—then other people in a tour bus traveling through Poland may be whatever they call the place below hell … or at least one corner of it.”
― Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
― Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
“She was one of those people who was stingy without motive or reason even when they gain nothing from it. - Willa Cather”
― Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather
― Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather
“Here is the essence of Cather's far-reaching humanism: a reverence for the barbarous existence by beauty making civilization. Wherever humanity has made the hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of brutality, is a sacred spot. (refers to places like Mesa Cliff Dwellings in Colorado)”
― Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather
― Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather
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