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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
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Checkbook
Revolver
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Hear
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Culture

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Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.
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Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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All governments require enemy governments.
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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
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What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?
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A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
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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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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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