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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
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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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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The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war for nationalism identification with something bigger than the self.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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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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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
Edward Abbey
A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
Edward Abbey
In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
Edward Abbey
I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
Edward Abbey
Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
Edward Abbey
I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
Edward Abbey
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.
Edward Abbey