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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
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Damn
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Reality

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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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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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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.
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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
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I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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