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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

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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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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
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A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
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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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Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)
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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war for nationalism identification with something bigger than the self.
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In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.
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Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.
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Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.
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