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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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My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.
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Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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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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Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him he harms nobody and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
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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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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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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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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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We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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