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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

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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
Drunk
Keeps
Drinking
Drink
Away
Shrink
Shrinks
Beer

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A pretty girl can do no wrong.
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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.
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All living things on earth are kindred.
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In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
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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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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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