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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you the public will not believe you your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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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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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
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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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Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.
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Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.
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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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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
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