"Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when……" — Philipp Meyer
"Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But when they brought all these cattle onto these relatively small bits of land, and the cattle were allowed to graze freely, they essentially destroyed the prairie."
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23 Quotes by Philipp Meyer
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You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of…
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No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.
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The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from…
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She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to…
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Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.
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Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing.
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We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had…
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After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years…
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When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we…
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Your mind burns a lot of calories. Writing can feel like a physical workout.
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My ideal is to write most of the day, then go running, find friends and socialise all evening; my mind…
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I try to begin writing as close to a dreamlike state as I can get.
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