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A pretty girl can do no wrong.

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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Wrong

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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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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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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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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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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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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
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The sense of justice springs from self-respect both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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