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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

Edward Abbey

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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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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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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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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A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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An empty man is full of himself.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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