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Mary Austin

"Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub."

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"Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub."

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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."

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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

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"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that."

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"Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out."

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"This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them."

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"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."

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"I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come."

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"At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it."

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"Death by starvation is slow."
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"Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names."
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"No man can be stronger than his destiny."
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"Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas."
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"Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise."
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"The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion."
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"I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention."
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"For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world."
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"This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough."
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"To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things."
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