Chinua Achebe
Novelist, Poet
"There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."
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Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes."
Robert Henri
Artist
"The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook."
Jerry Garcia
Musician
"Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice."
Carson McCullers
Novelist
"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter."
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"You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill."
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"Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion."
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"A hunter of shadows, himself a shade."
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"Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."
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"Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself."
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""Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work."
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"Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser."
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"The Edge...There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there."
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"If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting."
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"We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear"
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"Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies."
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"Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?"
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"Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters."
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"In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile."
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"An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap-best of all. But God himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, King, husband-that is quite another matter."
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"The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters"
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"We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we're shopper-borrowers."
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"I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter."
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"Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!"
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"No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed."
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