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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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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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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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Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
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I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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