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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

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
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
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If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
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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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