"Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains."

-- Gale Norton

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“The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.”
“Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound. God may have made men and women, but Colt made them equal. Anon totalitarian regimes and genocides can't happen without gun control Ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.”
“Trying is failing with honor”
“We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.”
“They also live Who swerve and vanish in the river.”
“The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach the white heat of imagination needed to fuse the soggy disjointed complexity of the industrial life about us into seething fluid of creation. There can be no more playing safe.”
“A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials which he finds, and to refrain from supplying deficiencies by additions of his own. He must be a profound and ingenious reasoner; yet he must possess sufficient self-command to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis.”
“The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.”

Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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