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William Kittredge Quotes

Don’t worry about meaning. If a story’s any good, it can’t help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means Picture Quote #1

One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory... Powerful and profoundly moving Picture Quote #1

They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit Picture Quote #1

I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much Picture Quote #1

We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our main ways of making our lives sensible. Trying to live without stories can make us crazy. They help us recognize what we believe to be most valuable in the world, and help us identify what we hold demonic Picture Quote #1

Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that? Picture Quote #1

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We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the stories we learn to live in Picture Quote #1

The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in ever more frantic ways. As it went dead and empty of the old life it became a place where no one wanted to live. In our right minds we want to seek out places that reek of complexity. Our drive to industrialize soured and undercut the intimacies that drew most people to country life in the first place Picture Quote #1

A man... needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink Picture Quote #1

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can’t buy it back Picture Quote #1

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Don’t worry about meaning. If a story’s any good, it can’t help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means (William Kittredge Quotes) One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory... Powerful and profoundly moving (William Kittredge Quotes) They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit. (William Kittredge Quotes) I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much (William Kittredge Quotes) We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our main ways of making our lives sensible. Trying to live without stories can make us crazy. They help us recognize what we believe to be most valuable in the world, and help us identify what we hold demonic (William Kittredge Quotes) Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that? (William Kittredge Quotes) We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the stories we learn to live in (William Kittredge Quotes) The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in ever more frantic ways. As it went dead and empty of the old life it became a place where no one wanted to live. In our right minds we want to seek out places that reek of complexity. Our drive to industrialize soured and undercut the intimacies that drew most people to country life in the first place (William Kittredge Quotes) A man... needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink (William Kittredge Quotes) The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can’t buy it back (William Kittredge Quotes)