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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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