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The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.

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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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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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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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