"People would be surprised to know how much……" — Mary Hunter Austin
"People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker."
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19 Quotes by Mary Hunter Austin
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Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods,…
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Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles…
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The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except…
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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…
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When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of…
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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough
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Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas
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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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No man can be stronger than his destiny.
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Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and…
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What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see…
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To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where…
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