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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Inside
Acorns
Night
Hog
Even
Root
Straight
Roots
Gonna
Blind
Filled
Acorn

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I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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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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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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Only the half-mad are wholly alive.
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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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We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
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Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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All governments require enemy governments.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking namely, life.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
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