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My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Nothing
Truest
Enough
Deepest
Someday
Somehow
Ambition
Within
Ability
Find
Likewise

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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead symmetrical but stiff.
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The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
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