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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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It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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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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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
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Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
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Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.
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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.
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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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You long for success? Start at the bottom dig down.
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The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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