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- Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed
- It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is abysmally ignorant. He…
- The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.
- I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a…
- It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way.…
- What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.
- ... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.
- The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think…
- I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that wave of weariness…
- I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then.…
- I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words…
- I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
- For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative…
- As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much…
- An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a…
- Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the…
- The land is so much more than its analysis.
- Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.
- There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.
- Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of…
- For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in…
- There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks…
- A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to.…
- His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.
- You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.
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