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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Critics
Dog
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Ornamental
Ticks
Tits
Dysfunctional
Tick
Motor

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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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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.
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Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly it's the highway that is ugly.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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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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The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.
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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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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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