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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.

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
Anywhere
Smile
Laugh
Trope
Sacrifice
Tropes
Laughing
Nuance
Anytime
Elegant
Finest

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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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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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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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If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.
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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.
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An empty man is full of himself.
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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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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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