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When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
Edward Abbey
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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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Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.
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The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.
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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
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If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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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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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
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The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.
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It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
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