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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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Men
Forty
Responsible
Fate
Face
Age
Faces

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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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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.
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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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