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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.

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
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Novelist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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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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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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