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I listened to the audio version of this book and loved it so much I bought the book. I am now listening to it again and highlighting the MANY lines throughout that deeply resonated with me. This is truly a book full of inspiration for any creative pe
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7-26-26: Still working my way through this, and dang it's hard to listen to the mess that this one man has created to appease his ego. Not only is he/has he ruined my country, he's ruining the entire world! Horrifying.
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“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
“Awe is the moment when ego surrenders to wonder. This is our inheritance - the beauty before us. We cry. We cry out. There is nothing sentimental about facing the desert bare. It is a terrifying beauty.”
― The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
― The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
“...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.”
― The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
― The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”
― The Sound of Mountain Water
― The Sound of Mountain Water
“I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.”
― Tropic of Capricorn
― Tropic of Capricorn
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