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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.
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Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.
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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
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I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.
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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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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)
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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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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
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I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
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Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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