Constant repetition dulls receptivity..

Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, th….

As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is the….

There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they ….

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we tr….

We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but onl….

I am now a fundamentalist American; give me time and I will tell you why individualism, laissez-faire and the slightly restrained anarchy of capitali….

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwe….

One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know what to tell my own bo….

Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them for their appearan….

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men..

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind..

Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog..

The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere..

The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow sky. Crop after crop….

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country..

That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, an….

The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance..

It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attemp….

I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work that's piled up ahead of me, I'll really write a beautiful thing. But I n….

Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater propriety and stateliness. G….