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It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
Edward Abbey
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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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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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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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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
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Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.
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The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
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It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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