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" At writing workshops, they taught us to show, not tell - well, showing takes time. "
Lydia Millet
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" After numerous generations of people dedicated to killing wolves on the North American continent, one generation devoted itself to letting wolves live. "
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" I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people. "
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" Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that. "
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" We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness. "
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" I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House? "
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" The grizzly bears that live in and around Yellowstone make up almost half the population in the lower 48 states, and now those bears are at risk. "
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" I've seen a few wild grizzly bears, mostly in Alaska and British Columbia, and always from a distance. But each grizzly I've caught sight of was as fearsome and sublime as the last. You never get used to their raw power and massive bodies, or the mysterious intelligence in their dark, close-set eyes. "
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" Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that. "
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" The Safari Club International has worked the legal system hard to try to keep polar bears - threatened primarily by climate change, but also by hunting - on the list of creatures people can import as trophies after shooting. "
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" I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom. "
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" I love irony. "
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" Everyone desires to laugh sometimes, and I want to make that available. "
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" Wyoming, home to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons, is also the country's largest coal producer and one of its largest gas drillers. Two-thirds of the state's gas-drilling rigs are on public lands in the increasingly industrialized Greater Green River Basin. "
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" The male domination and chauvinism of the comics form is either being wittily lampooned in 'Watchmen' or handily perpetuated, depending on whom you ask. "
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" It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed. "
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" About half of all potential future global warming emissions from United States fossil fuels lie in oil, gas and coal buried beneath our public lands, controlled by the federal government and owned by the American people - and not yet leased to private industry for fuel extraction. "
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" The summer after I got divorced, my children asked to sleep in my bed again. It would be the first time we'd shared a bed since they were infants. "
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" In October 2014, for the first time in almost three-quarters of a century, a gray wolf was seen loping along the forested North Rim of the Grand Canyon, in Arizona. She had walked hundreds of miles, probably from Wyoming or Idaho. "
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