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On the black earth on which the ice plants bloomed, hundreds of black stink bugs crawled. And many of them stuck their tails up in the air. "Look at a...more

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Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected...more

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Her total intellectual association was the Bible, except the talk of Samuel and her children, and to them she did not listen. In that one book she had...more

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A new country seems to follow a pattern. First come the openers, strong and brave and rather childlike. They can take care of themselves in a wilderne...more

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She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the ill. When she found that the theosophy s...more

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Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then,...more

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Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

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I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to th...more