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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.

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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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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.
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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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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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Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
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You long for success? Start at the bottom dig down.
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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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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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Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.
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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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