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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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Environmentalist
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Novelist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Guns don't kill people people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
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Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
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Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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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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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.
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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.
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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
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It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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