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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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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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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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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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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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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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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.
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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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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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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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There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last
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