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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.

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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
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him he harms nobody and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
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I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.
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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 idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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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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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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Life: another day, another dolor.
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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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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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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 artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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