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An empty man is full of himself.

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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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I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
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Life: another day, another dolor.
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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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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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Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.
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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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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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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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