“We know a little place in the American Far West, where Charlie Briggs chops up the finest prairie-fed beef and tastes…”

— Orson Welles

(pauses, and continues with a note of disgust in his voice) This is a lot of shit, you know that! You want one more? One more on the beef?
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American actor, director, writer and producer 1915–1985

Arthur Chapman (poet) (1873–1935) American poet and newspaper columnist

Out Where the West Begins http://www.cowboypoetry.com/ac.htm#OUT, st. 1. Out Where the West Begins and Other Western Verses http://www.cowboypoetry.com/ac.htm#outbk (1917)

“Don't give up.
You know it's never been easy.
Don't give up.
'Cause I believe there's a place,
There's a place where we belong.”

Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian

Don't Give Up
Song lyrics, So (1986)

“Else von Freytag-Loringhoven is the first Dadaiste in New York and […] the Little Review has discovered her. This movement should capture American like a prairie fire.”

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927) German poet

John Rodker, "Dada' and Else von Freytag-Loringhoven," The Little Review 7.2 (May-June 1920): p 36.
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“I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“Just as we pull up to this place…I notice two very large American flags…It's as if there was a need to emphasize the Americanness of this place. "We are American" says the first flag. "No we really are!"”

Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian

says the second. It struck me as enormously sad, somehow awkward and tragic.
From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, NATIONALISM

“I think that to those of us who have watched the development of the Middle West and the Far West nothing is more remarkable, nothing pays a higher tribute to the finest qualities of our race, than the way in which law and order are maintained from coast to coast.”

Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Speech in Regina, Canada (13 August 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 105.
1927

“Steaks every day for me. Steaks for breakfast. Steaks for lunch. Steaks for brunch. Grass-fed, massaged beef. All day long.”

Conor McGregor (1988) Irish mixed martial artist and boxer

"UFC 197 press conference" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75xAdA3uVeY (January 2016), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC 2010s, 2016

“I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.”

Sitting Bull (1831–1890) Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man

Recorded by James M. Walsh, inspector in the Northwest Territory of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, at a conference with Sitting Bull on March 23, 1879. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 206.

“I love all waste
And solitary places; where we taste
The pleasure of believing what we see
Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

Source: Julian and Maddalo http://www.bartleby.com/139/shel115.html (1819), l. 14

“While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.”

Jack Vance (1916–2013) American mystery and speculative fiction writer

“We know a little place in the American Far West, where Charlie Briggs chops up the finest prairie-fed beef and tastes…”

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