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Edward Abbey Inspirational Quotes (393)

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The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
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When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
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I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.
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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
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I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
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Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.
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Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
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In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
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All living things on earth are kindred.
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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Guns don't kill people people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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