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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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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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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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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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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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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him he harms nobody and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.
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Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature they distort it.
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
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The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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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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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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