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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
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All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
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The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war for nationalism identification with something bigger than the self.
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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
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Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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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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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.
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