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Tony Hillerman

"Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture."

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"Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture."

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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."

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"That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest."

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"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"

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"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."

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"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."

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"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."

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"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."

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"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."

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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."
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"You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart."
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"The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college."
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"I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading."
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"How can you stop writing?"
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"Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were."
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"Women are extremely important shapers of my own life."
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"Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like."
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