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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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You long for success? Start at the bottom dig down.
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.
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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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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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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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The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
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All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
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I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.
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