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There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.
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After all, what are any of us after but the conviction of belonging?
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History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.
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We write to make sense of it all.
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[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
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When you marry into a Mormon family you marry tribes and nations.
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A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people.
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When you're nailing a custard pie to the wall, and it starts to wilt, it doesn't do any good to hammer in more nails. Now
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His mouth is full of ecology, his mind is full of fumes.
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Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability.
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Our last impression of her as she turned the corner was that smile, flung backward like a handful of flowers.
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Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
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You must have brought something. Books? I never saw you without a green bag of books.
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National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.
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He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.
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Nothing is so safe as habit, even when habit is faked.
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Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly
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There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.
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If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea,
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Wisdom is knowing what you can accept.
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If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.
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American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.
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Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.
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I'm tired of hearing that the Lord shapes the back to the burden.
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Henry James says somewhere that if you have to make notes on how a thing has struck you, it probably hasn't struck you.
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Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.
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The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
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Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.
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The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.
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She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.
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Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.
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I hope they have found enough pleasure along the way so that they don't want it ended
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Sally has a smile I would accept as my last view on earth,..
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