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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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All governments require enemy governments.
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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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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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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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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It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
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I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.
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One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
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In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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Guns don't kill people people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
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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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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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