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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.

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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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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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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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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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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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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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
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Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.
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An empty man is full of himself.
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.
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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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