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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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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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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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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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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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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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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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Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.
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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
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