Rick Bass Quotes

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• Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they then begin to become strengths?
• Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wholeness in the world or in some portion or corner or fragment of the world…
• Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith.
• Fit in where you don't: make your own space..be different..don't give in. Exist somewhere you're not suppose to, or where you don't want to. Be…
• I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the…
• The future's so random, and so mobile, there's no way you're going to get to your vision of what you want your community to be…
• The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears.
• Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our duty?…
• A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.
• Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
• My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year,…
• To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.
• Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would…
• I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and it's…
• I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before…
• The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing…
• When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out…
• I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am…
• How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes…
• If it's wild to your own heart, protect it. Preserve it. Love it. And fight for it, and dedicate yourself to it, whether it's a…

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