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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

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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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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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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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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.
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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
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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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A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
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Grown men do not need leaders.
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
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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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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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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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