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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
Irrationality
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The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.
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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom because we like the smell of danger.
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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
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All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
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I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
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No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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