I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty--you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.
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A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.
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Good 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.
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It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
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Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.
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Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.
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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.
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The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.
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But love of the wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need - if only we had eyes to see.
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Truth is the enemy of power, now and always.
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A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American.
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"always pull up survey stakes, anywhere you find them. anywhere."
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the unthinkable is always thinkable
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Transparent and intangible as sunlight, yet always and everywhere present, [the desert] lures a man on and on, from the red-walled canyons to the smoke-blue ranges beyond, in a futile but fascinating quest for the great, unimaginable treasure which the desert seems to promise. Once caught by this golden lure you become a prospector for life.
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To live life is to take risks; to always be safe and secure is death.
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Speculation was the big thing; and then money poured in from all over the United States from those persons, always numerous in our society, eager to profit from the labor of others, anxious to reap what they had not sown.
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Westward always, into the sun...
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
-Edward Abbey
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...always the best part first...
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Wheather the world began with a Big Bang, an act of special creation, or always existed, has nothing of importance to do with the way we treat one another, our fellow creatures and this sweet planet earth. |
