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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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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.
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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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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.
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