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Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.

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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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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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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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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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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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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.
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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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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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.
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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?
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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
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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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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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