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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
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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Doubt
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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
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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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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
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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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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.
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The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
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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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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom because we like the smell of danger.
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.
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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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