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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
Edward Abbey
Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you the public will not believe you your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
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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.
Edward Abbey
Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.
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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom because we like the smell of danger.
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
Edward Abbey
My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
Edward Abbey
The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
Edward Abbey
The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
Edward Abbey
Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
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