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Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
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The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
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When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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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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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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