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The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.
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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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This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
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Grown men do not need leaders.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
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