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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.

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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A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.
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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.
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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 domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.
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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
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Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.
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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
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The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
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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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