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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

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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Edward Paul Abbey
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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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.
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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
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I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.
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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
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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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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 would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?
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