It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest ...obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Custom calls me to't. What custom wills, in all things should we do't,... The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heaped For truth to o'erpeer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lone...ly, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It's forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there's a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mountainous region of the State of Maine stretches from near the White Mountains, northeasterly one hundred and sixty miles, t...o the head of the Aroostook River, and is about sixty miles wide. The wild or unsettled portion is far more extensive. So that some hours only of travel in this direction will carry the curious to the verge of a primitive forest, more interesting, perhaps, on all accounts, than they would reach by going a thousand miles westward.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »