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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
Beauty
Heartbreaking
Everywhere

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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.
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Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.
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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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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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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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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
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One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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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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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
Edward Abbey