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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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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
Long
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
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If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
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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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If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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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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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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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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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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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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You long for success? Start at the bottom dig down.
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The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?
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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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