"When we think of the myth of the……" — Philipp Meyer
"When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting with other real people, we ignore the cost of human lives and blood."
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23 Quotes by Philipp Meyer
Philipp Meyer has 23 quotes on this site.
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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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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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When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior…
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The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
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The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion…
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron…
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But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
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I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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