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Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.

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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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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead symmetrical but stiff.
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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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All living things on earth are kindred.
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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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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No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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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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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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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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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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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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