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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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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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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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The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.
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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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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead symmetrical but stiff.
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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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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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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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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
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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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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
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