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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.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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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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One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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Grown men do not need leaders.
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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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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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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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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
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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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