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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

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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
Men
Showdown
Rifle
Rifles
Defend
Duty
Ready
Comes
Home

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In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.
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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.
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All living things on earth are kindred.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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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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Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.
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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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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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