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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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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
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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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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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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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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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It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.
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Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
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Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.
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Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.
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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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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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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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