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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

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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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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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All governments require enemy governments.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.
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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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Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?
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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
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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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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
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One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information (2) coherent knowledge (3) deep understanding (4) infinite loving wisdom (5) no more kidney stones, please.
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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
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