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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.

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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Novelist
Philosopher
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.
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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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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.
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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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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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