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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
Edward Abbey
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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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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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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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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
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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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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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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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