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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.

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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
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
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In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.
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I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.
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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
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When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
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Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
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It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
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