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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
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
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Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
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The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.
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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
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All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
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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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