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Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach… — Edward Abbey
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… — Edward Abbey
Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race. — Edward Abbey
Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark?… — Edward Abbey
Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement.… — Edward Abbey
Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of… — Edward Abbey
Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why? — Edward Abbey
Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?) — Edward Abbey
I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal. — Edward Abbey
Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little… — Edward Abbey
Why should anything happen when everything has happened? — Julian Barnes
Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough? — Julian Barnes
We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting. — Robert E. Sherwood
If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and… — Martin McGuinness
So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy — Kazuo Ishiguro
The people who, during the election, were so wise, so moral, so perfect, now have no tendencies whatever; or if they have any, they are… — Frederic Bastiat
Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a… — Georgia O'Keeffe
I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just… — Georgia O'Keeffe
Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our… — Robert Adams
The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it becomes compulsive, or… — Minor White
Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber. — Terry Pratchett
I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out. — Terry Pratchett
I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what… — Kurt Vonnegut
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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