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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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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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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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Life: another day, another dolor.
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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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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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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him he harms nobody and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
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Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
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