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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
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Philosopher
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Edward Paul Abbey
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How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.
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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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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
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Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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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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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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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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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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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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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 tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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