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

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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
World
Irrationality
Irrational
Either
Never

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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
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When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
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Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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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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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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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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Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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