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The British novelist and critic D. H. Lawrence, who lived in northern New Mexico for two years, conceptualized the US origin myth, invoking Cooper’s frontiersman character Deerslayer: “You have there the myth of the essential white America.
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“I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony.”
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“All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.”
― The Sot-Weed Factor
― The Sot-Weed Factor
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.”
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Ryan’s 2025 Year in Books
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