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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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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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Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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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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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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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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Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
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Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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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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It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.
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