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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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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring
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Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)
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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
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Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.
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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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Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.
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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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When I write paradise I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.
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It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
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Life: another day, another dolor.
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature they distort it.
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An empty man is full of himself.
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