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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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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.
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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.
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Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
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The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
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I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.
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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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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.
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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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