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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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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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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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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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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking namely, life.
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The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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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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All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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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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