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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
Boys
Comical
Cowboy
Leather
Farm
Farms
Hats

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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.
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The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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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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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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Grown men do not need leaders.
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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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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.
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Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
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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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An empty man is full of himself.
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Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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