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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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Tell
Bracken
Always
Shitheads
Edgar
Hoover
Initial
Initials
Thomas
Paul
Parnell

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Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.
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A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
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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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All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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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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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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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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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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Only the half-mad are wholly alive.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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