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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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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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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
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What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?
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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
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I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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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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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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