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Edward Abbey Inspirational Quotes (393)

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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.
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Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.
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Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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Only the half-mad are wholly alive.
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