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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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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Books
Friends
Gamut
Running
Wildly
Another
Coast
Book
East
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I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
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Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
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Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.
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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
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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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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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