Jim Fergus quotes
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“...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.”
-- Jim FergusSource : Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.84, Macmillan
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“Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?”
-- Jim FergusSource : Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.74, Macmillan
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“that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks”
-- Jim FergusSource : Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.162, Macmillan
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“Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.”
-- Jim FergusSource : Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.195, Macmillan
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“Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.”
-- Jim FergusSource : Jim Fergus (2005). “The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
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“The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primeval solitude would be like talking in church.”
-- Jim FergusSource : Jim Fergus (2005). “The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
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“Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.”
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“And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
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“Sometimes its odd to interact with someone to whom you purposed.”
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