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Edward Abbey Inspirational Quotes (393)

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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.
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The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.
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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
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How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
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One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
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If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
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