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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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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking namely, life.
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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.
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My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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