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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

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
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Darkness
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Education
Light
Flooding

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The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.
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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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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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Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.
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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
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One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.
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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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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.
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