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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
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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Men
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Poodles
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Canine

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Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
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Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.
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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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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.
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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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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
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The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly it's the highway that is ugly.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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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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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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