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James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
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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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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
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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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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
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In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.
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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
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The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking namely, life.
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