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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
Fight
Enemy
Passion
Fighting
True
Loyal
Earth
Enemies
Love
Laughter
Marriage

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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.
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I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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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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An empty man is full of himself.
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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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