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My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'

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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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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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