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A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.

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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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Farms
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Boys
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Leather

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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
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The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.
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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you the public will not believe you your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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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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You long for success? Start at the bottom dig down.
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Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.
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Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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