"The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice."

-- Edward Abbey

#Oxygen Quotes #Rebel Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die.”
“Supercars are supposed to run over Arthur Scargill and then run over him again for good measure. They are designed to melt ice caps, kill the poor, poison the water table, destroy the ozone layer, decimate indigenous wildlife, recapture the Falkland Islands and turn the entire third world into a huge uninhabitable desert, all that before they nicked all the oil in the world”
“The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.”
“there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.”

Source : Jonah Lehrer (2011). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.88, Canongate Books
“The primary mode of experiencing images is non-verbal... but once it's brought out into the light of the day, what's understood by the subconscious intuitive mind can be better grasped by the conscious rational mind. Aligning the two produces powerful results.”
“It's not up to the government to regulate everybody's life and lifestyle.”
“At times, the biggest challenge in embracing simplicity will be the vague feeling of isolation that comes with it, since private sacrifice doesn't garner much attention in the frenetic world of mass culture.”

Source : Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.15, Ballantine Books
“The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.”

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