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One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

Barry Lopez

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
BARRY LOPEZ

Giving Imagination Wise
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.
BARRY LOPEZ

Book Confused Thinking
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
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Inspire Needs Story
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
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
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
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
Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?
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Animal Forgiving Land
The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don’t know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It’s not that I’m not interested-it’s not where I live. I live inside the story.
BARRY LOPEZ

Looks Stories Writing
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
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
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.
BARRY LOPEZ

Stories Trying Typewriters
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
The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.
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Consideration Human Land Life
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
BARRY LOPEZ

Intelligence Love Reason
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
BARRY LOPEZ

Contradiction Inspirational Life Middle

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