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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.

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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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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.
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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.
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You long for success? Start at the bottom dig down.
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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
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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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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
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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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