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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?

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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
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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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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.
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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.
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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.
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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game
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It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
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