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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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One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
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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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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
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Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.
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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
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Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you the public will not believe you your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.
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Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
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