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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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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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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
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My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly it's the highway that is ugly.
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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?
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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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