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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
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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Else
Everything
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A pretty girl can do no wrong.
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
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Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
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Life: another day, another dolor.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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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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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
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The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.
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