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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.

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
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Edward Paul Abbey
Alone
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Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.
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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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It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.
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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature they distort it.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.
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Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.
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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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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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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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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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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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