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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
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring
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Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
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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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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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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
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