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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
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
Mind
Anatomy
Chastity
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead symmetrical but stiff.
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Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
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Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
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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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The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.
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Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game
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