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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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If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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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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It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
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A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.
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One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
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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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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
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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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The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.
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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
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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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