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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

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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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
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Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
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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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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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