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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
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Wishes
Probably
Wish
True
Come
Beware

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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
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A pretty girl can do no wrong.
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
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Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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