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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
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
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Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom because we like the smell of danger.
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.
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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
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Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
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The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.
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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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Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
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Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
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Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.
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