James Oliver Curwood quotes
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“The greatest thrill is not to kill- but to let live.”
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“In every man's heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused.”
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“Nature is my religion. And my desire...my ambition...the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me into the heart of this Nature. I love it, and I feel that they must love it......if I can only get the two acquainted.”
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“There are so many kinds of madness, so many ways in which the human brain may go wrong; and so often it happens that what we call madness is both reasonable and just. It is so. Yes. A little reason is good for us, a little more makes wise men of some of us--but when our reason over-grows us and we reach too far, something breaks and we go insane.”
-- James Oliver CurwoodSource : James Oliver Curwood “Works by James Oliver Curwood (Illustrated, 22 books)”, LCI
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“Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step who would enter into the mystery and adventure of the great white North.”
-- James Oliver CurwoodSource : James Oliver Curwood (2015). “The Valley of Silent Men”, p.2, Booklassic
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“Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance”
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“We need a way of life in which the animal, guided by reason, may romp but will not bite.”
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“Going to the electric chair will be the supreme thrill of my life.”
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“We will be just as ruthless as any of our targets. We will go for the throat.”
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“If an animal has any rights at all, it's got the right not to be eaten.”
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