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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.
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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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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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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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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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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
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