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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
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
Philosophy
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Men
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One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
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All governments require enemy governments.
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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.
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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.
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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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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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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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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?
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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
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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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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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