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“America is like an isolated information island. A lot of what happens in the rest of the world, a lot of the cultural exchange, never makes it to rural Alabama.”

Book:Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Finding Happiness in Los Angeles

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“I know, but the poor souls – Well, I’m sure you will agree with me in one thing: The chief task of a librarian is to get people to read.” “You feel so? My feeling, Mrs. Kennicott, and I am merely quoting the librarian of a very large college, is that he first duty of the conscientious librarian is to preserve the books.”

Library Librarian Rural America

Book:Main Street

Source: Main Street

“The path of the mystic is strewn with both rose petals and their thorns. You just gradually become more selective on where you place your feet.”.”

Philosophy Spirituality Mysticism Initiation Ancient Egypt Goddess Isis

Book:Sacred Mysticism of Egypt

Source: Sacred Mysticism of Egypt

“I wonder if the small town isn’t, with some lovely exceptions, a social appendix?”

Small Town Rural America Appendix

Book:Main Street

Source: Main Street

“It is an unimaginatively standardized background, a sluggishness of speech and manners, a rigid ruling of the spirit by the desire to appear respectable. It is contentment . . . the contentment of quiet dead, who are scornful of the living for their restless walking. It is negation canonized as the one positive virtue. It is the prohibition of happiness. It is dullness made God.”

Small Town Dullness Rural America

Book:Main Street

Source: Main Street

“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him - but he was a good and faithful horse. -Frank From "Eulogy for a Percheron" in "The Horse Lawyer and Other Poems”

Rural Life Poetry Of Life Rural America

Book:The Horse Lawyer and Other Poems

Source: The Horse Lawyer and Other Poems

“Law is the historical antithesis of order.”

Libertarian Rebellion Dystopian Fiction Rural America Surveillance State Nanny State Disruptive Technology

Book:OFF GRID: How Long Can They Hide From The Surveillance State?

Source: OFF GRID: How Long Can They Hide From The Surveillance State?

“The people I’ve met on this trip through rural America are so different from those you meet traveling through more densely-populated areas. A genuine warmth and concern for others exists.”

Concern For Others Rural America Genuine People Warm People

Book:Road Work: Images And Insights Of A Modern Day Explorer

Source: Road Work: Images And Insights Of A Modern Day Explorer

“I doubt if in the landscape there can be anything finer than a distant mountain-range. They are a constant elevating influence. Henry David Thoreau”

History Rural America Children S The Great Depression Children S Adventure Children S Christian Arkansas History Mt Magazine

Book:Frankie, Nancy and Rose on the Mountain

Source: Frankie, Nancy and Rose on the Mountain

“Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,” said Sheriff Red Jetty. “It can just ruin a day.”

Black Humor Rural America

Book:The Trees

Source: The Trees

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