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How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.

Edward Abbey

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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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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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