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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.

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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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Edward Paul Abbey
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It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
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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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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
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Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
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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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One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
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It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.
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A pretty girl can do no wrong.
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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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