"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."

-- Tony Hillerman

#Graduation Quotes #Art Quotes #Winning Quotes

“You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child.”
“To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.”
“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”
“I hadn't expected to be kidnapped today or I'd have worn something more conservative.”
“When you write from your gut and let the stuff stay flawed and don't let anybody tell you to make it better, it can end up looking like nothing else.”
“The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.”
“In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is”
“It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.”

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