"Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops."
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"If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness."
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"For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself."
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"Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy."
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"The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence."
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"A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter."
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"Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk."
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"Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons."
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"Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true - I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia."
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"Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation."
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"A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationist."
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"Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February."
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"What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love."
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"Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!"
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"All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires."
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"Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique."
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"Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues."
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"Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand."
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"In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be."
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"James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end."
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