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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Bore
Bores
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Sparkling

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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.
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The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.
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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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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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If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
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Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
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