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

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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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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game
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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information (2) coherent knowledge (3) deep understanding (4) infinite loving wisdom (5) no more kidney stones, please.
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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
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If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.
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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 highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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