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ac79e97
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And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.
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frodo
west
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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a029cec
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I'm in love with you. I'm in love with you and I don't know how to make you feel better. I'm in love with you and I shouldn't be. I'm in love with you and once you figure out who I am, you're not going to love me. I'm in love with you and I seem to fuck up the ones who love me back.
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love
take-me-on
west
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Katie McGarry |
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39ac3b6
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Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.
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hesse
east
west
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Hermann Hesse |
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0691b84
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By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far as the eye could see. They grouped in the road at the top of a rise and looked back. The storm front towered above them and the wind was cool on their sweating faces. They slumped bleary-eyed in their saddles and looked at one another. Shrouded in the black thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were under way at some flawed place n the iron dark of the world.
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west
storm
weather
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Cormac McCarthy |
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508a4ca
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Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.
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escape
freedom
religion
individual
west
purpose
obedience
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D.H. Lawrence |
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6081694
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OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth!
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east
west
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Rudyard Kipling |
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399747d
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West Young. My West Young. The guy who fought for me when Conner and his friend tried to jump me. The guy who took on a fight to help save my family. The guy who held me while I mourned my own losses. That's West Young. The man I'm falling for.
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west
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Katie McGarry |
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2f8060f
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"She's probably right on both counts, but there's something dark in her eyes. It's the same shadow I see whenever she stops me. "You're worth fighting for." "I'm not." The way she answers too fast with too much conviction twists my insides. When the three men who should be taking bullets for her stand by and let insults be thrown at her, how can I convince her otherwise?"
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take-me-on
west
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Katie McGarry |
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53b6954
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we were nothing more than actions to reactions - helpless against our own fate. It's true. I react and others pay.
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love
haley
west
power
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Katie McGarry |
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f35c66d
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The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.
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good
auschewitz
south-sudan
sentiment
indifference
apathy
tolerance
west
genocide
rwanda
sudan
holocaust
hitler
hollow
talk
evil
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Philip Gourevitch |
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0b4cc5c
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If you have not touched the rocky wall of a canyon. If you have not heard a rushing river pound over cobblestones. If you have not seen a native trout rise in a crystalline pool beneath a shattering riffle, or a golden eagle spread its wings and cover you in shadow. If you have not seen the tree line recede to the top of a bare crested mountain. If you have not looked into a pair of wild eyes and seen your own reflection. Please, for the good of your soul, travel west.
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nature
canyon
camping
environment
west
mountains
wilderness
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Daniel J. Rice |
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ec875e9
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I knot my fingers with Haley's and turn my head so I'm focusing out the driver's-side window--away from her. If I look at Haley, I'm terrified of what I might say, what I might feel. And fuck me, I've already said too much.
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west
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Katie McGarry |
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225dc7b
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It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparseness, space clarity & hopefulness of the West, to go away for study and enlargement and the perspective that distance and dissatisfaction can give, and then to return to what pleases the sight and enlists the loyalty and demands the commitment.
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life-and-living
philosophy
vastness
west
western
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Wallace Stegner |
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77d2b56
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In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises.
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present
memories
past
west
promises
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Wade Davis |
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575e832
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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.
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war
indians
west
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Jim Fergus |
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11f4e68
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They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July.
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midwest
clouds
july
skies
storms
west
iowa
weather
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Bill Bryson |
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2ce48a3
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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 primaevl solitude would be like talking in church.
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travel
sierra-madre-mountains
west
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Jim Fergus |
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5ab877e
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People're always buried facing west, so at the end of time when the Last Trumpet blows, all the dead people'll claw their way up and walk due west to the throne of Jesus to be judged. . . . Suicides, mind, get buried facing north. They won't be able to find Jesus 'cause dead people only walk in straight lines. . . . Isn't god better than one who does that to people?
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suicide
west
north
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David Mitchell |
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626963d
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By midmorning eight of the horses stood tied and the other eight were wilder than deer, scattering along the fence and bunching and running in a rising sea of dust as the day warmed, coming to reckon slowly with the remorselessness of this rendering of their fluid and collective selves into that condition of separate and helpless paralysis which seemed to be among them like a creeping plague.
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west
horses
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Cormac McCarthy |
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1401a41
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I asked him what his work was. He answered that he devoted all his time to his political activities... He was undoubtedly busy with the diplomatic relations between his testicles and women's breast.
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marriage
love
testicles
seperation
iran
west
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Marjane Satrapi |
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d145720
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Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry: the heartbeat of the West as it fought its way upward toward civilization.
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poetry
roughness
rocky-mountains
heartbeat
rough
west
civilization
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Wallace Stegner |
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c9ab5a2
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"I'm never going to be kissed." I open my eyes to see my brothers gaping at me like I've lost my mind. "You don't kiss boys," says West. "Boys shouldn't be anywhere near you. Guys only want one thing, Rach, and it ain't conversation. I should know." He waves off the subject in frustration, then shakes his head as he speaks again. "Why are we even talking about this? You aren't seeing anyone." "Ah, hell," mumbles Jack. "We're having the sex talk with my baby sister." "Is she dating?" Gavin demands of West and Ethan. "She can't be dating. Now we have to beat the snot out of some horny teenager. You should have told me this was going on." "Make them stop," I whisper to Ethan. Along with the dread of speeches and vomiting, I'm also dying of embarrassment. "She's not dating!" West shudders as if spiders cover him. "That's just sick, Rach. Don't talk like that. Ever. Again." Gavin sends me a glare clearly meant to warn me off from kissing and dating boys before he heads for the main ballroom."
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kiss
gavin
rachel-young
warn
west
dating
jack
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Katie McGarry |
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a7fb4ec
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In the South they are convinced that they have bloodied their place with history. In the West we do not believe that anything we do can bloody the land, or change it, or touch it.
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west
south
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Joan Didion |
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f0c9628
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Western technology made slavery unnecessary; Western ideas made it intolerable.
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western-civilization
west
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Bernard Lewis |
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3f5756a
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The biggest threat to Western civilization is posed not by other civilizations, but by our own pusillanimity -- and by the historical ignorance that feeds it.
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history
western-culture
western-civilization
west
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Niall Ferguson |