“In keeping with the Laws of the Prophet Bubba and the Code of the UIL, as set forth in the Book of First Downs, as the sun sets on Friday nights the rites of the Texas state religion are celebrated:… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“In the past few years, genetics have confirmed that the hunter-gatherers were not overwhelmed by the new wave of sedentary farmers, and that the… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“... in 1912, although he, more even than other members of the Senate and the House, thought himself presidential timber (a delusion from which… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected romanticizing and… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“Show me you care about our common tongue. Bring to your [writing] passion, deeply informed by knowledge of your subject. Stay me, not with… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“Southern culture is vivified, made a culture, by the melding of influences that are held far more closely than in other, lesser parts of… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“Chili is one of those marvelous-simple, elemental, all-important, and fundamental concepts that has been elaborated out of all recognition: rather like justice, or objective… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“The reason all the 'intellectuals' – Sartre and Marx, Hemingway and Hellman – (. . .) are Leftists is that a defining characteristic of… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados, hurricanes, dust… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“In keeping with the Laws of the Prophet Bubba and the Code of the UIL, as set forth in the Book of First Downs,… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“This side of the Kingdom of God upon Earth, it is a melancholy human fact that those who beat their swords into plowshares end… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“My mother was widely loved, and rightly so – and widely regarded as too sweet for words. Well, she had them buffaloed. Any woman… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“In answer to 'But violence hasn't solved anything!' The hell it hasn't. The application of violence - of killing and a willingness to be… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
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