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“The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante’s paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

“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

“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

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