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Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Leads
Despair
Computer
Habit
Poetry
Hacking
Games
Electronic
Habits
Boredom

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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
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Guns don't kill people people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
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The sense of justice springs from self-respect both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
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Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.
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I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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