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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.
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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
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Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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