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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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Edward Paul Abbey
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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
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Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?
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Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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Life: another day, another dolor.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
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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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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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