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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Word
Right
Pictures
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Thousand

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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
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Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
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A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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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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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
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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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Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
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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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It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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