Mari Sandoz famous quotes
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Indians still consider the whites a brutal people who treat their children like enemies - playthings, too, coddling them like pampered pets or fragile toys, but underneath always like enemies, enemies that must be restrained, bribed, spied upon, and punished. They believe that children so treated will grow up as dependent and immature as pets and toys, and as angry and dangerous as enemies within the family circle, to be appeased and fought.
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There's no discounting the antagonism the average woman feels for the eldest daughter. The infuriating thing is that most mothers blame the daughters for their hatred when it's just what makes the mother pig eat her first batch of young. Of course one can't tell them that.
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writers don't like to write letters. Too much like work.
-- Mari Sandoz
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The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
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I am just a person who can't skate in the mountains
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I am like the she-wolf / I broke with the pack / I fled to the mountains / Growing tired of the flatlands.
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To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance.
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He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
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the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.
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The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
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Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.
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God, give me hills to climb, And strength for climbing!
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