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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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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
Edgar
Hoover
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Thomas
Paul
Parnell
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Bracken
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Shitheads

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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.
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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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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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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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A pretty girl can do no wrong.
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
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One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.
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I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.
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Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.
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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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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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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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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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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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