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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

Edward Abbey

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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
Keeps
Drinking
Drink
Away
Shrink
Shrinks
Beer
Drunk

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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
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I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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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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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
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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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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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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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