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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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This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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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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Guns don't kill people people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
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Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
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The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.
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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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Grown men do not need leaders.
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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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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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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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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