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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

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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
Versus
Damn
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Reality

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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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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 developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
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All living things on earth are kindred.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
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Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.
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It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you the public will not believe you your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.
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