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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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Checkbook
Revolver
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Hear
Word
Culture

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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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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom because we like the smell of danger.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
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One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.
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Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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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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When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
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Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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