Source: Arabian Sands (1959), p. 103.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 6.
“Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.”
Preface
Sackett's Land (1974)
Context: We are all of us, it has been said, the children of immigrants and foreigners — even the American Indian, although he arrived here a little earlier. What a man is and what he becomes is in part due to his heritage, and the men and women who came west did not emerge suddenly from limbo. Behind them were ancestors, families, and former lives. Yet even as the domestic cattle of Europe evolved into the wild longhorns of Texas, so the American pioneer had the characteristics of a distinctive type.
Physically and psychologically, the pioneers' need for change had begun in the old countries with their decision to migrate. In most cases their decisions were personal, ordered by no one else. Even when migration was ordered or forced, the people who survived were characterized by physical strength, the capacity to endure, and not uncommonly, a rebellious nature.
History is not made only by kings and parliaments, presidents, wars, and generals. It is the story of people, of their love, honor, faith, hope and suffering; of birth and death, of hunger, thirst and cold, of loneliness and sorrow. In writing my stories I have found myself looking back again and again to origins, to find and clearly see the ancestors of the pioneers.
Source: Planet of the Damned (1962), Chapter 8
Part 2, Ch. 18
The Woman in the Dunes (1962)
Hellenica Bk. 7, as translated by Rex Warner in A History of My Times (1979) p. 398.
Speaking & Features, Standing Up To Goliath
Letter accepting the Republican nomination to run for President (12 July 1880)
1880s
Variant: Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 300.
