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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

Edward Abbey

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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.
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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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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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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
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