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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?

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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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.
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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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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.
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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
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My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.
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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.
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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
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Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.
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