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

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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
Darkness
Study
Education
Light
Flooding
Illumination

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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
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I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.
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Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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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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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.
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Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
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A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
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A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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