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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

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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 only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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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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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 love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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The sense of justice springs from self-respect both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
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Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
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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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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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