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Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

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
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Nerves
Cliches
Advertising
Fashions
Instant
Fads
Threat
Frantic
Merely
Nerve
Communication
Trivial
Bombardment
Fashion
Cliche
Gibberish
Threats
Wracking

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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
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One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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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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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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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
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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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I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
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Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.
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A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.
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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
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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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Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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