Quote by Walter Kirn

““Central Wyoming was like hell without the flames, an underworld thrust up onto the surface.””

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Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

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Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn

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“Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.”

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Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

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