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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.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
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Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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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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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?
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