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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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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
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Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.
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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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Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
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Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
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