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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
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Grief
Regret
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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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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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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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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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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
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My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
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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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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
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Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'
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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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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
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Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?
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