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

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
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Novelist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
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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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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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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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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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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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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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Life: another day, another dolor.
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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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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
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There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
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