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

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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
Anywhere
Smile
Laugh
Trope
Sacrifice
Tropes
Laughing
Nuance
Anytime
Elegant
Finest

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Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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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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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
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A pretty girl can do no wrong.
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A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
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Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.
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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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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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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.
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A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.
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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'
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I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
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