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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.

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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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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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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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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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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.
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The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an equalizer.
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Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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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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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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