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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
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.
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It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
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The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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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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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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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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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information (2) coherent knowledge (3) deep understanding (4) infinite loving wisdom (5) no more kidney stones, please.
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Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
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When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.
Edward Abbey