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

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
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The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
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A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
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I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.
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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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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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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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For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.
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Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
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I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.
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