"A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_."
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"Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth."
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"It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive."
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"If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child."
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"To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed."
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"Every moment is precious. And precarious."
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"A world without open country would be universal jail."
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"Preacher to me: 'A dollar for the Lord, brother?' Me to preacher: 'That's all right, I'm headed his way. I'll give it to him when I see him.'"
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"One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word."
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"If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life."
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"Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly."
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"My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit."
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"Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak."
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"Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music."
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"A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more grotesque, like a soul without a body."
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"This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got."
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"Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race."
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"Wilderness begins in the human mind."
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"The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!"
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"Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits."
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