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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
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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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Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.
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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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