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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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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.
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Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.
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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.
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Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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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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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
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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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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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