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> [She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to erase any sins that had attached to her name, she had failed, she had not reached the golden bough. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philipp-meyer/she-wondered-how-people-would-remember-her-she-had-not-made-enough-to/)

[Philipp Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philipp-meyer/)

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> [“The liberals would cheer her death. They would light marijuana cigarettes and drive to their sushi restaurants and eat fresh food that had traveled eight thousand miles. They would spend all of supper complaining about people like her, and when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philipp-meyer/the-liberals-would-cheer-her-death-they-would-light-marijuana/)

[Philipp Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philipp-meyer/)

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## Other authors on Thousand miles

## More by Philipp Meyer

> [Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philipp-meyer/your-job-as-a-writer-is-to-find-storylines-narrative-structures-and/)

[Philipp Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philipp-meyer/)

> [After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philipp-meyer/after-i-finished-college-i-got-a-job-on-wall-street-as-a-derivatives/)

[Philipp Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philipp-meyer/)

> [“but I rarely did anything I didn't feel like doing, and maybe this was the main difference between the whites and the Comanches, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philipp-meyer/but-i-rarely-did-anything-i-didn-t-feel-like-doing-and-maybe-this-was/)

[Philipp Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philipp-meyer/)

> [When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philipp-meyer/when-novels-deal-in-abstractions-they-generally-go-off-the-rails/)

[Philipp Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philipp-meyer/)

> [“resacas have all gone dry. The entire earth, it seems, is being slowly transformed into”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philipp-meyer/resacas-have-all-gone-dry-the-entire-earth-it-seems-is-being-slowly/)

[Philipp Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philipp-meyer/)

> [I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philipp-meyer/i-just-assume-that-i-ll-fail-at-something-for-several-years-that-i-ll/)

[Philipp Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philipp-meyer/)

> [“They all want to be rich, same as we do, but they do not admit to themselves that you only get rich by taking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philipp-meyer/they-all-want-to-be-rich-same-as-we-do-but-they-do-not-admit-to/)

[Philipp Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philipp-meyer/)

> [“The strong took from the weak, only the weak believed otherwise.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philipp-meyer/the-strong-took-from-the-weak-only-the-weak-believed-otherwise/)

[Philipp Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philipp-meyer/)

> [“Of course you wanted your children to have it better than you had. But at what point was it not better at all?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philipp-meyer/of-course-you-wanted-your-children-to-have-it-better-than-you-had-but/)

[Philipp Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philipp-meyer/)

> [“I might be killed any day, by whites or hostile Indians, I might be run down by a grizzly or a pack of buffalo…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philipp-meyer/i-might-be-killed-any-day-by-whites-or-hostile-indians-i-might-be-run/)

[Philipp Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philipp-meyer/)

> [“You could not measure yourself against the dead, they retained their perfection while your flesh got weaker and weaker.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philipp-meyer/you-could-not-measure-yourself-against-the-dead-they-retained-their/)

[Philipp Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philipp-meyer/)

> [“I have always found it interesting that white children take so quickly to Indian ways, while Indian children, when brought to be raised in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philipp-meyer/i-have-always-found-it-interesting-that-white-children-take-so/)

[Philipp Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philipp-meyer/)

> [Life throws up enough road blocks to keep you from writing; you can't be adding to them yourself by saying you can only write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philipp-meyer/life-throws-up-enough-road-blocks-to-keep-you-from-writing-you-can-t/)

[Philipp Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philipp-meyer/)

> [“There had been a time when this was not unusual. A time when the wealthy were exemplars. When you held yourself to a higher…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philipp-meyer/there-had-been-a-time-when-this-was-not-unusual-a-time-when-the/)

[Philipp Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philipp-meyer/)

> [You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philipp-meyer/you-ought-to-be-able-to-grow-up-in-a-place-and-not-have-to-get-the/)

[Philipp Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philipp-meyer/)

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