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My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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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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I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.
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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly it's the highway that is ugly.
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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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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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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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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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