"Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice."
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"But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust."
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"Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature."
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"Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least."
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"And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain."
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"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork."
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"J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial."
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"Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now."
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"Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial."
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"Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing."
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"If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes."
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"One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please."
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"I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one."
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"Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble."
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"Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness."
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"Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness."
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"The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares."
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"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"
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"All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob."
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"A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles."
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