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When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.

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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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Revolver

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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him he harms nobody and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
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Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
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The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
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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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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
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Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
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Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
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When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?
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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
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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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A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
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