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#1. there were three kinds of thermal features in the world: geysers, mud pots, and fumaroles (steam vents), and Yellowstone featured them all.

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#2. Think globally and act locally.

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#3. The headless trunk was discovered impaled on a metal fencepost on the edge of the town park.

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#4. Stops at the end of the road collected Clyde Lidgards like dams collected silt.

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#5. I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

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#6. Hide in plain sight, that was the way out here. He would learn something from that.

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#7. In Wyoming, the people owned the game animals, and they took their ownership to heart.

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#8. ...there is no sound in nature that makes men move along faster than the pumping of a shotgun.

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#9. of cash and apologized to his stepmother and half sisters for meeting

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#10. Like most men, he had a tough time believing that his wife had had any kind of interesting life before she met him. Which was ridiculous on its face.

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#11. poleaxed with exuberance. Keeping to dirt roads,

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#12. We're trivial pissants in the big scheme of things, fleas, fly shit in the pepper.

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#13. Children were not pets, not furniture, not items put on earth to bring pleasure to people who owned them, she raged to herself.

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#14. I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.

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#15. there's nothing worse on this earth than privileged bureaucratic assholes who work the system. they never get caught, and if they do, there are no real consequences.

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#16. were all so sure it was Dallas. Maybe next time you'll listen

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#17. Pronghorn antelope were the second fastest mammals on earth - only an African cheetah could outrun them.

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#18. a Nean derthal with a badge.

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#19. Jim Harrison's novels, John McPhee's nonfiction, Flannery O'Connor's short stories, and the crime novels of John Sandford, Ken Bruen, and T. Jefferson Parker. His books

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#20. Seems like people always want to think they're doomed. It brings them some kind of black comfort, I guess.

Nate

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#21. It seems like the good guys turned out to be the bad guys, and the bad guys weren't all that bad.

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#22. I know Edmond Locard's Principle, the central theory of modern forensic crime-scene investigation: something is always left behind.

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#23. In Joe's experience, the person who talked the most very often had the least to say.

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#24. On the third day of their honeymoon, infamous environmental activist Stewie Woods and his new bride, Annabel Bellotti, were spiking trees in the forest when a cow exploded and blew them up. Until then, their marriage had been happy.

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#25. those losses were the result of wild game, such as elk herds eating haystacks meant

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#26. We recycle, don't we, Alex? And we replaced all of our lightbulbs. You know, with the ones that don't work very well? And one of my cars is a Prius. It's not like I don't care.

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#27. We are both disciples of the Louis Jordan song 'What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again).

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#28. Every place in West, it seemed, was always for sale.

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#29. I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

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#30. Nothing spells trouble like two drunk cowboys with a rocket launcher.

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#31. THE AGENTS DROVE another hour north and crossed the border into Wyoming. Instantly, the car was buffeted by gusts of wind. "Where are the trees?" Baker asked. "They blew away," Singewald said.

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#32. Way too many fat people in shorts.

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#33. As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

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#34. Wyomingites, Joe had observed, didn't know what to do when it rained except get out of it, watch it through the window, and wait for it to go away.

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#35. her head and her face was in shadow. She'd pushed

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#36. a bunch of granola eaters who hate George Bush.

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#37. Keeley used the opening to bury the knife into Hank Scarlett's heart. It took three tries.

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#38. like to see Clay McCann thrown in prison because he doesn't like the idea of a man getting away with murder in his state, despite the weird legal circumstances of this one.

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#39. Joe nodded. "We're required to report bullet wounds.

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