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Only six quotes in goodreads: I still regard three months in the West in much the same way I would three months forced attendance at the German Opera. === According to his headmaster at Exeter, Johnson was “gifted, attractive, athletic and able.” But the headmaster added that Johnson was “headstrong, indolent and badly spoilt, with a notable indifference to any motive save his own pleasures. Unless he finds a purpose to his life, he risks unseemly decline into indolence and vice.” === “Going west is no shakes. Any fool can go,” I said. “But all fools haven’t gone—at least you haven’t.” “I’ve never had the least desire to go,” I said. === … these fossils do not invite interest. They invite passionate commitment, they invite religious fervor and scientific speculation, they invite heated discourse and argument, but they do not thrive on mere interest. === Colorado is a delightful place not to be.