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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

Edward Abbey

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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
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
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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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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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The sense of justice springs from self-respect both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.
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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.
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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
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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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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking namely, life.
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
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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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