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History is nothing whatever but a record of what living persons have done in the past.

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The difference between mining and geology is like that between the old-time bear-hunters and the city man.

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The first twenty years of my life were wasted... I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

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To believe that any action based on an ignorance of fact can possibly succeed, is to abandon the use of reason.

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Writing fiction is … an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

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Men are alive on this earth, only because the imperative human desire is to attack the enemies of human life. -viii.

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The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.

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Freedom is the nature of man; every person is self-controlling and himself responsible for his thoughts, his speech, his acts.

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Making the best of things is … a damn poor way of dealing with them.... My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

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No jailer can compel any prisoner to speak or act against that prisoner's will, but chains can prevent his acting, and a gag can prevent his speaking.

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We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but only remember living.

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I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

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The words we use are the most clumsy symbols for meanings, and to suppose that such words as "war," "glory," "justice," "liberty, home," mean the same in two languages, is an error.

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It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

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That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.

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This is the nature of human energy; individuals generate it, and control it. Each person is self-controlling, and therefore responsible for his acts. Every human being, by his nature, is free. -xii.

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I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I say? - the way trees grow, from some inner essential principle of them, just expressing itself.

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