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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.

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
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
Evil
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
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The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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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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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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