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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
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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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Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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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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Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
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Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.
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A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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