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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

Edward Abbey

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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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Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
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Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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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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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
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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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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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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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Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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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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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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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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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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