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“In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been (because it shifted) - I find it very clarifying (not confusing) to be reminded that everything we feel like we've really pinned down is transient, arbitrary, and marks the site of a painful if not violent negotiation, one that may not have ended.”

Ifs Feels May Has Beens Shows Mark Painful Violent Borders Maps Museums Texas Mexico Site Negotiation Confusing Arbitrary Transient Clarifying El Paso

Author:Laura Mullen

“[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.”

White Texas Grandparent Trash White Trash El Paso

Author:Carrie Fisher

“We’re on the moon,” Sadie murmured. “El Paso, Texas,” Bast corrected.”

Moon Texas Sadie El Paso

Book:The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

“Yes, Horus said. I remember this place. It’s El Paso, I told him. Unless you went out for Mexican Food, you’ve never been here.”

Said Remember Mexican Mexican Food Horus El Paso

Author:Rick Riordan

“The Commission endorses prevention as the principal strategy to use in deterring illegal entries. We applaud the efforts of innovative Border Patrol leaders such as Silvestre Reyes with Operation Hold the Line in El Paso. Operation Hold the Line demonstrated that a strategic use of personnel and technology can combine at our land border, as it has for many years at our airports, to reduce unauthorized crossings.”

“I had more verses . Owen Bradley said, 'Loretta, there's already been one El Paso and we'll never have another one. Get in that room and start taking some of those verses off.' Yeah, I took six verses off.”

Said Rooms Six Yeah Songwriting Verses El Paso

Author:Loretta Lynn

“Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.”

Girl Towns West Texas Mexican West Texas El Paso

Author:Marty Robbins

“Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.”

Wells Born Hospitals Texas Farms Hospitality Family Farms El Paso

Author:Sam Donaldson

“If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus”

Ifs Knows Looks Different States Know How Areas Driven Texas Dallas Texan El Paso

Author:Lee Trevino

“And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.”

Knows Night Courses Cities Vote Exciting Election Halls Texas Polls Exit City Hall El Paso

Author:Sam Donaldson

“While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.”

Mets Married Clinton Native Texas August El Paso

Book:Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane

Source: Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane