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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Men
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In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.
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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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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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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking namely, life.
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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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