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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'

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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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Novelist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you the public will not believe you your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.
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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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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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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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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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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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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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Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
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The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
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In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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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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In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)
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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking namely, life.
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