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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

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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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Novelist
Philosopher
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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