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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.

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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
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.
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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
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You long for success? Start at the bottom dig down.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
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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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When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.
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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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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.
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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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