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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Political
Babylon
Conservative
Neither
Hell
Peace
Evil
War

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The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.
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My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
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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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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
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Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.
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Life: another day, another dolor.
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
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Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.
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Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead symmetrical but stiff.
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Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
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Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
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