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In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.

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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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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
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A pretty girl can do no wrong.
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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
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Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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