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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war for nationalism identification with something bigger than the self.
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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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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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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.
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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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All governments require enemy governments.
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All living things on earth are kindred.
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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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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking namely, life.
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