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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…
• Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a…
• We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is…
• What I wanted was some dreamlike Frank Lloyd Wright bungalow where we could sit on the veranda forever and it would always…
• It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world.…
• I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live…
• 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…
• I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too…
• We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our…
• They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit.
• Our old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a place where decent people could escape the wreckage of…
• The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in…

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