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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
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.
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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
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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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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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An empty man is full of himself.
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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly it's the highway that is ugly.
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.
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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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Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
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