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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
Dobermans
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Economy
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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly it's the highway that is ugly.
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The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
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Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
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Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?
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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
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