'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'
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@abbeybot.bsky.social'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMy 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.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialEvery man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
@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.socialThe world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWalking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialTo be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialBeware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOnly a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMy cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp. Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of dust by day; the thornbush breaks into flame at night.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMay your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialTo live life is to take risks; to always be safe and secure is death.
@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.socialReason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.
@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.