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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
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Fate
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Men
Forty
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The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.
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I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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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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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
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Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
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I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.
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Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
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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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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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