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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.

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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
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Sympathy
Intelligence
Arms
Knowledge
Reason
Love

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Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.
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I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
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The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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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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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him he harms nobody and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
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Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
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The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
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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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A pretty girl can do no wrong.
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