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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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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
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When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
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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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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
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What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
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