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36ab0de
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Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.
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existence
western
knowledge
horror
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Cormac McCarthy |
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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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6b714fb
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Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong associated with a particular ti that is ... Western, and completely alien to us [the Chinese]. For centuries, since the time of the Opium Wars, we have struggled to absorb the yong of technology without importing the Western ti. But it has been impossible. Just as our ancestors could not open our ports to the West without accepting the poison of opium, we could not open our lives to Western technology without taking in the Western ideas, which have been as a plague on our society. The result has been centuries of chaos.
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history
western
society
technology
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Neal Stephenson |
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b20838b
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"The meaning of life in western secular society is to be successful. So many people are success mad and they are encouraged to reach for something and have so called "worthwhile goals". Money, fame, power, good looks, possessions are the indicators of success and the media and advertising companies exploit this. People are conditioned to believe that they can only feel happy or good about themselves if they have these things. This of course is not true."
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money
looks
lies
good
meaning
success
happiness
life
truth
companies
conditioned
indicators
what
possessions
conditioning
is
of
fame
successful
western
society
goals
secular
media
deceit
power
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Tim Crawshaw |
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94ce3fa
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one day you stepped in snow, the next in mud, water soaked in your boots and froze them at night, it was the next worst thing to pure blizzardry, it was weather that wouldn't let you settle.
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frontier-and-pioneer-life
western
snow
weather
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E.L. Doctorow |
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cce4161
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They began to come upon chains and packsaddles, singletrees, dead mules, wagons. Saddletrees eaten bare of their rawhide coverings and weathered white as bone, a light chamfering of miceteeth along the edges of the wood. They rode through a region where iron will not rust nor tin tarnish. The ribbed frames of dead cattle under their patches of dried hide lay like the ruins of primitive boats upturned upon that shoreless void and they passed lurid and austere the black and desiccated shapes of horses and mules that travelers had stood afoot.
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literature
western
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Cormac McCarthy |
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28d17d3
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"You know that if I ever do settle down with some woman, Lillie is going to come after you next," Hawk said. "She's relentless. She'll have you married within weeks after I tie the knot. Mark my words." He took another drink and swallowed. "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
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romance
thriller
western
suspense
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B.J. Daniels |
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dd6e970
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He leaned forward and began to count off on the fingers of the hand that held the cigarette: She aint American. She aint a citizen. She dont speak english. She works in a whorehouse. No, hear me out. And last but not least--he sat holding his thumb--there's a son of a bitch owns her outright that I guarangoddamntee you will kill you graveyard dead if you mess with him. Son, aint there no girls on this side of the damn river? Not like her. Well I'll bet that's the truth if you ever told it.
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romance
western
lovesick
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Cormac McCarthy |
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3e75262
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he had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for life in the East. Trying not to die in the West.
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mortality
western
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Mary Doria Russell |
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894f866
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"Yoshoku is the Japanese take on Western foods; much of it was created during the Meiji period (1868-1912), when, after centuries of isolation, Japan began importing goods and ideas from the outside world, including food. Yoshoku dishes such as (salisbury steak in brown sauce), curry rice, potato croquettes, and "spaghetti " are now much-loved comfort food. They're also so unlike the dishes that inspired them that they tend to be really hard for Westerners to appreciate."
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yōshoku
western
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Matthew Amster-Burton |
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7bddb4f
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As Rachel ran with her 18-month-old son James Pratt, she was knocked down to the ground by a hoe, dragged by her hair, and separated from her child. She found herself taken to the area where her uncle Benjamin had been mutilated; arrows had been stuck in his body, and passing warriors thrust spears into it.
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parker-s-fort
true-stories
southwest
native-americans
western
texas
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Noel Marie Fletcher |
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027d0b1
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I been packin' iron for so long that if I don't have one on me somewheres, I walk slant-wise.
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western
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William W. Johnstone |