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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

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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
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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
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Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.
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Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
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Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.
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When I write paradise I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.
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For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
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Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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