Quotes 21 till 40 of 213.
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As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south.
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Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have made it equivalent to contemplation. Contemplation is thinking. Meditation is no-thinking.
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Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.
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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
Source: An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920) -
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
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By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West.
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Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.
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Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?
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England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
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Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
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Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands.
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Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.
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Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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