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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

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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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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
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All governments require enemy governments.
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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.
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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
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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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