Clear and Present Dangers……Robert Lewis Stevenson

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson

Clear and Present Dangers……Tracy Kidder

“When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.”

― Tracy Kidder

Clear and Present Dangers……P.J. O’Rourke

“America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.”

― P.J. O’Rourke

7th Cavalry Flag

November 6, 1891 — Comanche, the only 7th Cavalry horse to survive George Armstrong Custer’s “Last Stand” at the Little Bighorn, dies at Fort Riley, Kansas.

The Analects of Mudcat: Memories

“Memories are mental tattoos.”

~M.T. Bass***

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Clear and Present Dangers……Albert Camus

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”

― Albert Camus

Clear and Present Dangers……James Jones

“Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.”

― James Jones