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“To refute the solipsist or the metaphysical idealist all that you have to do is take him out and throw a rock at his head: if he ducks he’s a liar. His logic may be airtight but his argument, far from revealing the delusions of living experience, only exposes the limitations of logic.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

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“Rather than live on in the hearts and mind of the public, I prefer to live on in my apartment.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

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“In the end this obsession for conformity leads to fascism.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

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“His persona seemed very odd to me: it was as though he’d once seen an intellectual, and had spent the rest of his life impersonating him.”
― John Cleese, So, Anyway...

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“I had discovered that I am the kind of person who cannot live comfortably, tolerably, on all-flat terrain. For the sake of inner equilibrium there has to be at least one mountain range on at least one of the four quarters of my horizon-and not more than a day’s walk away.”
― Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

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