"Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great."
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"Beware of the man who has no enemies."
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"Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising."
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"Without courage, all other virtues are useless."
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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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"The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice."
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"Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies."
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"Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful."
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"Not all questions can be answered."
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"A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis."
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"In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood."
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"A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes."
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"It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come."
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"Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about."
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"Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where, precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In between? Or somewhere else?"
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"No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County."
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"An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human."
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"Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity."
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"What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?"
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"The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe."
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