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A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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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.
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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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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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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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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him he harms nobody and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
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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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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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