A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.

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Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.

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A house built on greed cannot long endure.

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In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

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But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.

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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.

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Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for "To hell with our children."

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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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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

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One 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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Simplicity is always a virtue.

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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.

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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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I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.

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The "Terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

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But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture.

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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: form of rape by the State.

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There are no vacant lots in nature.

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