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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
Life
Buzzards
Cheap
Mexico
Unhappy
Rich
Death
Never

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Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
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Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature they distort it.
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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
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