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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.

Edward Abbey

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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
Become
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Trade
Late
Honest
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Everyone

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Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.
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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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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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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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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.
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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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