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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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For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.
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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
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When I write paradise I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
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I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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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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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)
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Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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