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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
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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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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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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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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Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.
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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
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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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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.
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The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
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The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.
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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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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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