So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialSo I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialGod is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOne thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialEvery moment is precious. And precarious.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMy books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOne 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.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialLet us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialChastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That's the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn't much matter whether you get where you're going or not. You'll get there anyway.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOne breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialWe need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may not ever need to go there.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialLife is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOf all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMy 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.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhen a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIt is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it's still here.