Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.
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Related I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, ... TUCKER CARLSON Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE My earliest experience was reading Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' ... LEE DANIELS I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect siz... EILEEN MYLES I wasn't prepared for the environment I encountered trying to break into television news. In the... GRETCHEN CARLSON One day I looked in the mirror, and I wasn't happy. If you're not feeling good mentally, emo... RICKI-LEE COULTER My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't. AARON PAUL I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wou... CHRISTINE MCVIE My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I was... 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Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. EDWARD YOUNG And love is love, in beggars and in kings. EDWARD DYER The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi... EDWARD ABBEY I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars. EDWARD RICKENBACKER You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared ... EDWARD FLAHERTY God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe... EDWARD EVERETT For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem. EDWARD YOUNG The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin... EDWARD ABBEY كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از... EDWARD SAID You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h... EDWARD SAID In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig... EDWARD EVERETT A God all mercy is a God unjust. EDWARD YOUNG Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind thei... EDWARD VARESE It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the ... EDWARD GIBBON Can't I another's face commend,
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