"Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts."

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Source : Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

Ruth Stout

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“Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and instead toward jumping through hoops of lawyers and regulators, and prevent other operations from ever getting off the ground.”
“Of all the things about de Sade, I would argue he is funny. A lot of people didn't understand de Sade. No. 1, he is a very good writer, and No. 2, he had the courage to talk about a lot of things that in public, even now, almost nobody has the courage to talk about. He would do it with a kind of funny way - not the stories themselves, but the way he tells them. He is never serious.”

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“A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.”
“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”

Source : The Long Goodbye ch. 12 (1953)
“The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.”
“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”
“There are always greater fish than you have caught, always the lure of greater task and achievement, always the inspiration to seek, to endure, to find.”

Source : Zane Grey (2015). “ZANE GREY Ultimate Collection: Historical Novels, Western Classics, Adventure Tales & Baseball Stories (60+ Titles in One Volume): Riders of the Purple Sage, The Border Legion, Wildfire, Desert Gold, Betty Zane, The Last Trail, The Heritage of the Desert, The Lone Star Ranger, Arizona Clan, To the Last Man, The Day of the Beast…”, p.7307, e-artnow
“I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.”

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