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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.

Edward Abbey

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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
Life
Rejoice
Tragic
Sadness

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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
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Only the half-mad are wholly alive.
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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