Top 33 Rose Wilder Lane Quotes
#1. Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
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#2. Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.
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#3. The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.
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#4. 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 only remember living.
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#5. An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority.
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#6. The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.
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#8. The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.
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#9. Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
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#10. 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 treat people.
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#11. Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
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#13. 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 have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.
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#14. 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 appearance, but for the memories in them, for their good wearing qualities and the thrift they represented.
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#15. I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I say? - the way trees grow, from some inner essential principle of them, just expressing itself.
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#16. The first twenty years of my life were wasted ... I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.
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#18. No one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.
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#19. I am now a fundamentalist American; give me time and I will tell you why individualism, laissez-faire and the slightly restrained anarchy of capitalism offer the best opportunities for the development of the human spirit.
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#20. 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 attempted resistance to irresistible change.
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#21. 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 never do. I always have the idea that someday, somehow, I'll be living a beautiful life.
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#22. I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.
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#23. I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.
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#24. The fact is that nothing but human energy working productively can produce any of the necessities of human life, any human living conditions.
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#25. No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
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#26. The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.
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#27. 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 underwear or wrap up packages.
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#28. That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.
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#29. What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.
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#30. 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 basis of socialism.
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#31. (...) all men are united in one common effort to survive on this earth. All men share a common human necessity, a common human aim. All men are equally entitled to life, and therefore to the necessities of life.
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#32. Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.
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