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Mary Hunter Austin Quotes

Death by starvation is slow Picture Quote #1

Ride your emotions as the shallop rides the waves; don’t get upset among them. There are people who enjoy getting swamped emotionally, just as, incredibly, there are people who enjoy getting drunk Picture Quote #1

To underestimate one’s thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things Picture Quote #1

The utmost the American novelist can hope for, if he hopes at all to see his work included in the literature of his time, is that it may eventually be found to be along in the direction of the growing tip of collective consciousness. Preeminently the novelist’s gift is that of access to the collective mind Picture Quote #1

What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way Picture Quote #1

To underestimate one’s thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things Picture Quote #1

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Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub Picture Quote #1

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual Picture Quote #1

Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is Picture Quote #1

No man can be stronger than his destiny Picture Quote #1

Genius... arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena Picture Quote #1

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas Picture Quote #1

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I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention Picture Quote #1

Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe Picture Quote #1

In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the length of time they have been dead Picture Quote #1

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars Picture Quote #1

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be Picture Quote #1

Man is not himself only... He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources... He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys Picture Quote #1

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Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all things. That of which all things that are consist, the first from which they come to be, the last into which they are resolved... this they say is the element and this is the principle of things... yet they do not all agree as to the number and the nature of these principle is water Picture Quote #1

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience Picture Quote #1

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough Picture Quote #1

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion Picture Quote #1

Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind Picture Quote #1

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Death by starvation is slow (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) Ride your emotions as the shallop rides the waves; don’t get upset among them. There are people who enjoy getting swamped emotionally, just as, incredibly, there are people who enjoy getting drunk. (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) To underestimate one’s thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things. (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) The utmost the American novelist can hope for, if he hopes at all to see his work included in the literature of his time, is that it may eventually be found to be along in the direction of the growing tip of collective consciousness. Preeminently the novelist’s gift is that of access to the collective mind (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) To underestimate one’s thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) No man can be stronger than his destiny (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) Genius... arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the length of time they have been dead (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) Man is not himself only... He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources... He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all things. That of which all things that are consist, the first from which they come to be, the last into which they are resolved... this they say is the element and this is the principle of things... yet they do not all agree as to the number and the nature of these principle is water (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes) Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind (Mary Hunter Austin Quotes)