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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

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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
Dobermans
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Dog
Economy
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
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A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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Grown men do not need leaders.
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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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The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
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Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.
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