A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialA writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMy books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAnywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe plow has probably done more harm - in the long run - than the sword.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOur big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialLife is cruel? Compared to what?
@abbeybot.bsky.socialParadise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialCritics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialRecorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialThere is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with the best of intentions, and I recommend it to every serious wino.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI look forward to the day when all river runners carry, as part of their standard equipment, a surface-to-air missile launcher armed with heat-seeking missiles.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMusic is a savage art, a measured madness.
@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.socialSome lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.
@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.socialOf course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.
@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.socialAnarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOne definite advantage of being a conservative is that you never have to trouble your conscience about selling out; a conservative is a sell-out from the beginning, an ass-kisser and power sycophant by definition.