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It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.

Barry Lopez

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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Admit Courage Place Universe
When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I’m trying to do. I’m frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
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Stories Trying Typewriters
You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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Expression Inspirational Life Light
People think that if you’ve written a book and somebody’s given you a pat on the back then, you know, it’s all – you’re all settled, you know? You’re going to be fine. I know that if I’m not confused, and really afraid, my work isn’t going to be any good.
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Book Confused Thinking
It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.
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Animal Doe Men
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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Contradiction Inspirational Life Middle
We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone’s calling, to lead a life that helps.
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Calling Helping World
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.
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Adults Inspirational Life Responsibility
The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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Imagination Influence Powerful
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much
The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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Hate Love Opposites
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.
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Darkness Moving Real
The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.
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Apples Attempt Gap Temptation

It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.

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