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Edward Abbey Inspirational Quotes (393)

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Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'
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All governments require enemy governments.
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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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The sense of justice springs from self-respect both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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An empty man is full of himself.
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.
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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
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I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
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My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
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