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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Nonsense
Grief
Regret
Short
Life
Bullshit

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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him he harms nobody and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.
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Only the half-mad are wholly alive.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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Grown men do not need leaders.
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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.
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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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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
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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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The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
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Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.
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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead symmetrical but stiff.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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