Careless Quote by Mary Hunter Austin

“I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to them while they live.”

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Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of…

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Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

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Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift…

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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough

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No man can be stronger than his destiny.

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The utmost the American novelist can hope for, if he hopes at all to see his work included in the literature of his time,…

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Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.

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Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very blood humming to new altitudes.

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In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the…

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All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid that range…

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You have to beat out for yourself many mornings on the windy headlands the sense of the fact that you get the same rainbow…

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As I walk .. as I walk .. / The universe .. is walking with me .. / Beautifully .. it walks before me…

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“The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?”

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And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the…

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“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so…

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Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into God’s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if…

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Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you’re not carefree you keep on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so narrow, so…

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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

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Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora.…

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Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted…

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You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way of what…

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