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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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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
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The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an equalizer.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
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A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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