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Edward Abbey Inspirational Quotes (393)

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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
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Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.
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The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
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It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
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A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.
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When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.
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The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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