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- The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
- Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
- Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An…
- Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.
- Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can…
- Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.
- If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
- Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.
- This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
- Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.
- I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.
- The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
- All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if…
- King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on…
- Only the half-mad are wholly alive.
- There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.
- I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central…
- The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee- pad conservative....
- Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.
- There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.
- Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier…
- The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will…
- My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
- Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The…
- As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'
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