"May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night."

-- Edward Abbey

#Dog Quotes #Rain Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done.”
“I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.”
“The world has witnessed the rise and fall of monarchy, the rise and fall of dictatorship, the rise and fall of feudalism, the rise and fall of communism, and the rise of democracy; and now we are witnessing the fall of democracy... the theme of the evolution of life continues, sweeping away with it all that does not blossom into perfection.”
“The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.”
“Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.”
“The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory”
“When you are on stage you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across.”
“The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.”

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