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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
Habits
Boredom
Leads
Despair
Computer
Habit
Poetry
Hacking
Games
Electronic

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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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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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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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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
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You long for success? Start at the bottom dig down.
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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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If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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