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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.

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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.
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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.
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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
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Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.
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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
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