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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

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
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Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)
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A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.
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Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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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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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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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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