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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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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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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
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If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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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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The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
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A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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