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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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Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom because we like the smell of danger.
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Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.
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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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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.
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The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you the public will not believe you your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.
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All governments require enemy governments.
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The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an equalizer.
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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
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Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
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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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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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