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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.
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A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.
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Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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Guns don't kill people people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
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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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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
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One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information (2) coherent knowledge (3) deep understanding (4) infinite loving wisdom (5) no more kidney stones, please.
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Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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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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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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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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