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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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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
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Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.
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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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It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
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Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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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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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom because we like the smell of danger.
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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.
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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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If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
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