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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
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
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Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
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Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking namely, life.
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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.
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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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Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.
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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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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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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
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