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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

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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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Appetite
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Atheist
Men
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.
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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
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Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
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The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
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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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