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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.

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
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
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Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.
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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
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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 rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
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Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.
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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
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Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.
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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.
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Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)
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A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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