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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
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Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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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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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage and without courage all other virtues are useless.
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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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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
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Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
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The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
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My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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