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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

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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
Passion
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Loyal
Earth
Enemies
Love
Laughter
Marriage
Fight
Enemy

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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
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A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
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King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.
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Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
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Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.
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I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
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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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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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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
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