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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

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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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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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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information (2) coherent knowledge (3) deep understanding (4) infinite loving wisdom (5) no more kidney stones, please.
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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.
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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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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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One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
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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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The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.
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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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