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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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
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Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
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No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.
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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game
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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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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom because we like the smell of danger.
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You long for success? Start at the bottom dig down.
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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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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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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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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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