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Every moment is precious. And precarious.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Moments
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Precarious
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
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The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.
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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
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If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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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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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
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It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.
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The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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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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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.
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