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

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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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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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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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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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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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You long for success? Start at the bottom dig down.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
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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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When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.
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The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you the public will not believe you your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.
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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
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It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
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The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.
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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking namely, life.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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