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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.
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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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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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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom because we like the smell of danger.
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This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.
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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.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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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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Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
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Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
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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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