When 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.
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@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.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialBelief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialHow to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMoney confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialBut don't get discouraged comrades. Christ failed too.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialSome people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialLife is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialReaders, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOnly a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe "Terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialCounterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and powerful.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThere is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.