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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.

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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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Come
Beware
Wishes
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I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
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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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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
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