Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialNature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialReaders, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialPage, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIf the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone? Contempt for the natural world implies contempt for life. The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialLove flowers best in openness and freedom.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIf you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIs the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAbolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: form of rape by the State.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialSo long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialBaseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOf all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialGood writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialBaseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMen love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialCharity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
@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.