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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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Edward Paul Abbey
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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.
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Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
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Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
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Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
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The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.
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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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