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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Come
Beware
Wishes
Probably
Wish
True

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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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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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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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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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The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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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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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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The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you the public will not believe you your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.
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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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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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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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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.
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Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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