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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.
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Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
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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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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.
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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
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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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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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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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