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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Novelist
Philosopher
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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