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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
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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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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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Grown men do not need leaders.
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
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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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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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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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If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.
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Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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