In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
@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.socialHumans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialLet the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialCongress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
@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.socialNothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialYou can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialCharity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialNature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhy is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWe have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialGovernment should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialInstant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialEach thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialCounterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and powerful.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAmerica My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.