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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.

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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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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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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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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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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
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Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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