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• But however you might rebel, there was no shedding them. They were your responsibility and there was no one to relieve you…
• We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as…
• Water is the true wealth in a dry land.
• Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.
• Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at…
• Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
• How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots…
• It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to…
• No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.
• There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful…
• This early piece of the morning is mine.
• There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.

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