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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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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Wrong

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We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?
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The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
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Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.
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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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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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