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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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For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
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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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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.
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The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.
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In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.
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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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Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.
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I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
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A pretty girl can do no wrong.
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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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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