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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

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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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Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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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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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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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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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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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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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
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