'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'
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How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?
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When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
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Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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To live life is to take risks; to always be safe and secure is death.
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I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.
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The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
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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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All governments require enemy governments.
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No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.
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If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.
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At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, "thus far and no further."
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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Beyond the wall of the unreal city... there is another world waiting for you. It is the old true world of the deserts, the mountains, the forests, the islands, the shores, the open plains. Go there. Be there. Walk gently and quietly deep within it. And then -
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Our "neoconservatives" are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring.
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The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
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My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
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'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
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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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