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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.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
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Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
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The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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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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No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
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Life: another day, another dolor.
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King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.
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Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
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The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
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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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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
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