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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.

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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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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.
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The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
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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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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
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The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
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