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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

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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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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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It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.
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My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.
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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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Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
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I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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