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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.

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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
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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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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
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A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.
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I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.
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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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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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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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