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It is my belief that the writer, the free-lance author, should be and must be a critic of the society in which he lives. It is easy enough, and always profitable, to rail away at national enemies beyond the sea, at foreign powers beyond our borders who question the prevailing order. But the moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home; to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own culture. If the writer is unwilling to fill this part, then the writer should abandon pretense and find another line of work: become a shoe repairman, a brain surgeon, a janitor, a cowboy, a nuclear physicist, a bus driver.

-Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

-Andre Gide, author, Nobel laureate (1869-1951)

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

-Howard Zinn, historian, professor, author, playwright, and social activist (1922-2010)

"A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him."

Brendan Francis

"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."

Lewis Carroll

If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.

-Steve Allen, television host, musician, actor, comedian, and writer (1921-2000)

"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter."

Mark Twain