William Kittredge Quotes
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Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself deeply moved by…
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Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?
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We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the…
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What I wanted was some dreamlike Frank Lloyd Wright bungalow where we could sit on the veranda forever and it would always be twilight in…
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It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe,…
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I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live out his life…
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Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.
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I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.
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We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our main ways of…
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They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit.
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Our old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a place where decent people could escape the wreckage of failed lives and…
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The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in ever more frantic…
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