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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.

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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Novelist
Philosopher
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Edward Paul Abbey
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
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