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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
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Novelist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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The sense of justice springs from self-respect both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?
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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.
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One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
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Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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An empty man is full of himself.
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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