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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.

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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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In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.
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Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
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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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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?
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Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
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I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.
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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 believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.
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No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
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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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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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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
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