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A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

Edward Abbey

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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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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.
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When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.
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Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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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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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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