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Musher Inspirational Quotes (31)

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Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me.
Gary Paulsen
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THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope.
Laird Barron
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That's all it took to solve problems - just sense.
Gary Paulsen
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Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.
Laird Barron
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I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!
Gary Paulsen
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Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.
Gary Paulsen
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A friend of mine said, 'Leukemia hasn't met Susan Butcher yet,' and I agree with her. It's going to have to fight awful hard if it wants to take me.
Susan Butcher
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If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.
Gary Paulsen
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Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.
Laird Barron
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We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.
Gary Paulsen
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I care for my dogs as if my life depended on them. And oftentimes it does.
Susan Butcher
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A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's debut is as sharp and polished as any I've seen.
Laird Barron
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I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.
Gary Paulsen
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Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.
Gary Paulsen
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I was very aware that I was a woman and that the Iditarod was a big thing for women, but I didn't want to be given any special treatment. I just wanted to be viewed as a musher.
Susan Butcher
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I do not know the word 'quit.' Either I never did, or I have abolished it.
Susan Butcher
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School didn't work for me. I hated it.
Gary Paulsen
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Personal sacrifices are really the beginning and the end of everything, because you don't win because you do one thing right or two things right. You win because you do 1,000 little things right throughout the year.
Susan Butcher
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Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years. This time, though, it's different. He's burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape.
Laird Barron
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The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.
Laird Barron
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I read like a wolf eats. I read myself to sleep every night.
Gary Paulsen
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I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.
Laird Barron
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This beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath.
Gary Paulsen
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Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.
Gary Paulsen
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