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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.
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My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
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Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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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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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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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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The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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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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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
Edward Abbey
A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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