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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.

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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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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.
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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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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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In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
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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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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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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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Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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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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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
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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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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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