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“The day is an epitome of the year. The night is the winter, the morning and evening are the spring and fall, and the noon is the summer.”
― Walden
― Walden
“History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of hindsight like an arrogant detective who seems to know the end of the mystery from the outset.”
― Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI
― Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI
“In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.”
― My First Summer in the Sierra
― My First Summer in the Sierra
“I took a sip of my coffee, sat the folder on the counter, and began reading the newspaper. “In the cold, gray dawn of September the twenty-eighth . . .” Dickens. “. . . The slippery bank where the life of Cody Pritchard came to an ignominious end . . .” Faulkner. “Questioning society with the simple query, why?” Steinbeck. “Dead.” Hemingway. Ernie”
― The Cold Dish
― The Cold Dish
“Duke was not what you would call a natural actor, but he learned. And when he learned, he mastered one of the hardest things of all - to act natural. And he does it so well that a lot of people still don't know he's acting. - Paul Fix”
― John Wayne: The Life and Legend
― John Wayne: The Life and Legend
American Westerns
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The American Westerns group provides a forum for the appreciation and discussion of classic and current fiction of the Old West.
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