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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.

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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
Best
Hemingway
Come
Jack
Even
London
Never
Writers
Steinbeck
Mark
Wolfe
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Faulkner
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Theodore
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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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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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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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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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 drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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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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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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