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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."
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"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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"They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did."
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"Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."
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"Storytelling is what lights my fire."
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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."
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"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow."
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"The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them."
Fight
"My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood."
Death
"My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost."
Government
"My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa."
February
"The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily."
Men
"But the love of adventure was in father's blood."
Love
"I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them."
Enemy
"The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state."
Men
"Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it."
Men
"It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was."
Effort
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