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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.
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Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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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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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
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The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an equalizer.
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