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Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana. – James Welch

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The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they werent very wealthy they were on the fringes of society themselves. – James Welch

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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. – Edmund Wilson

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