And so this is the long road the nation traveled to get to Earthday, 1970, and beyond. Those who lead us down it… did not leave us a bad legacy considering the mood in which the continent was settled,...
Children from a big family have the benefit of a certain amount of neglect.
He has a way of walking through conventions of that kind as if they did not exist, and being so much himself that pretty soon people begin adapting themselves to him.
Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie.
I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into and got out...
Mexico was an interlude of magic between a chapter of defeats and an unturned page.
And so give your uncommon readers a chance to join you in the solidarity of pain and love and the vision of human possibility. But isn’t it enough? For lack of the full heart’s desire, won’t it serve?
A wandering dog of a night wind came in off the sagebrush mesa carrying a bar of band music, and laid it on her doorstep like a bone.
A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed assistant scoutmaster whose total experience outdoors probably consists of two...
Be bold, he says. Be brave. Be true to your birthright, what you recognize in your heart.
Do what you like to do. It’ll probably turn out to be what you do best.
Es lässt sich wohl kaum abstreiten… dass die Vorstellung von einem freien, ungebundenen Leben uns seit jeher berauscht und beflügelt hat. In unserer Gedankenwelt verbinden wir damit die Flucht vor der...
Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.
He looks into his Dixie cup and looks back up as if surprised at what he found there. The future, maybe.
I hope they have found enough pleasure along the way so that they don't want it ended
I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow
If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned me. It has the forms and lights and colors that I respond to in nature...
Is it compulsory to be one of the immortals? We're all decent godless people, Hallie. Let's not be too hard on each other if we don't set the world afire. There's already been enough of that.
It is hard doctrine, but I was beginning to understand it then, and I have not repudiated it till now: that love, not sin, costs us Eden. Love is a carrier of death - the only thing, in fact, that mak...
It reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonable well-intentioned man can walk t...
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