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Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.


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The "Terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.


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May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill.


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"Finally the moon came up, a golden globe behind the rocky fretwork of the horizon, a full and delicate moon that floated lightly as a leaf upon the dark slow current of the night. A face that watched me from the other side"


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The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.


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As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.


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Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.


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The plow has probably done more harm - in the long run - than the sword.


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An empty man is full of himself.


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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.


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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.


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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.


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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.


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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.


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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.


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Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details.


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The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.


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A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.


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Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.


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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.


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Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.


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Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.


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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.


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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty--you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.


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Knowing now what we have learned, unless the need were urgent, I could no more sink the blade of an ax into the tissues of a living tree than I could drive it into the flesh of a fellow human.


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This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.


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Our "neoconservatives" are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.


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Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.


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If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.


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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.


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