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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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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.
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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
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I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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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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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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