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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
Intend
Rest
Natural
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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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The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.
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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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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.
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There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last
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For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
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In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)
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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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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
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The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.
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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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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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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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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
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