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All living things on earth are kindred.

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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
Kindred
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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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It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
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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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I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
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My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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