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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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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
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The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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