"It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and develops a certain ruggedness of character....Moreover, it allies us to the pioneer past. In a deep sense, this great land of ours was won for us by hunters."

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Source : Thomas Ligotti (2009). “Teatro Grottesco”, p.53, Random House

Archibald Rutledge

#Sports Quotes #Character Quotes #Men Quotes

“There will be something anguish or elation that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: hail to the morning! come down to me, my beautiful unknown.”
“Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person.”
“If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.”
“Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.”
“I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear was.”
“When you're singing we all phrase each other in the most remarkable ways. I might hit some sort of thing I've never done before - some vocal pattern. Bonzo will pick it up - he'll phrase with me instantly and then Pagey may join in or start some other phrase - it's like a quadrant.”
“Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone invents his own truth, there is no community, only factions. Without community, there can be no consensus to resist the greedy, the envious, the power-mad narcissists who seize control and turn the institutions of civilization into a series of doom machines.”
“I want you to be.... happy.”

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