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Edward Abbey Inspirational Quotes (393)

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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
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A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
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The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.
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Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.
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