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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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Environmentalist
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Novelist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
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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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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.
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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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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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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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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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