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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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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?
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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
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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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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.
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How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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The sense of justice springs from self-respect both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.
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In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)
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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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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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It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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