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Life: another day, another dolor.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking namely, life.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.
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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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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
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The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.
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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.
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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
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A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
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You long for success? Start at the bottom dig down.
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One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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