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A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature they distort it.
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
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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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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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