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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
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Elegant
Finest
Anywhere
Smile
Laugh
Trope
Sacrifice
Tropes
Laughing
Nuance
Anytime

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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.
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This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
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Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
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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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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
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The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
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I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
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Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.
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Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.
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My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
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I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
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The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.
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