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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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Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
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Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.
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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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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
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A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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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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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.
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The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
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The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an equalizer.
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring
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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
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All governments require enemy governments.
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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
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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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