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God is love? Not bloody likely.

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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
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.
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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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Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
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It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
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Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
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The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
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I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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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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