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- If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
- I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
- It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I…
- I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a…
- We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight…
- Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but…
- Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
- When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
- What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.
- I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
- We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
- The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth,…
- Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my…
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