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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.

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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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Everywhere
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Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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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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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.
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Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
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A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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When I write paradise I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
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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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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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