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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you the public will not believe you your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.
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