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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Novelist
Philosopher
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Edward Paul Abbey
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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
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A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.
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The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.
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Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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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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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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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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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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