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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.

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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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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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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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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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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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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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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
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Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.
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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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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
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Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
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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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Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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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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