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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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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly it's the highway that is ugly.
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Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
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I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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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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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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