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James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

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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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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
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I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.
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Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
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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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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
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I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
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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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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.
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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature they distort it.
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