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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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Culture
Checkbook
Revolver

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The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.
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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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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.
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I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)
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