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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage and without courage all other virtues are useless.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you the public will not believe you your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
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The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
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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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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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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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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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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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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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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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