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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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It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.
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Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
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The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.
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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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A pretty girl can do no wrong.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
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It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
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Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an equalizer.
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The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.
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