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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.

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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
Falling
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Men
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.
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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
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A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
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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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Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
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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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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.
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The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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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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