Daniel Keys Moran
Author, Screenwriter
"An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else."
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Bogs
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Elizabeth I
Queen
"They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink."
Barry Hannah
Author
"What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it."
Emily Dickinson
Poet
"I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?"
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"It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such."
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"Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe."
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