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

Edward Abbey

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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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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly it's the highway that is ugly.
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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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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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In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)
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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking namely, life.
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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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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
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The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.
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