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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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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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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
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Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
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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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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
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