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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.

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
Playful
Desperate
Late
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Situation

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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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You long for success? Start at the bottom dig down.
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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 industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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