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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

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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
Men
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Silly
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Friendship
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Poodles
Problem
Canine
Best
Puppy

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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom because we like the smell of danger.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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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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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
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Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?
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An empty man is full of himself.
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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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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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