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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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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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A pretty girl can do no wrong.
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Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.
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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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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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The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war for nationalism identification with something bigger than the self.
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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
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Guns don't kill people people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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