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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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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
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A pretty girl can do no wrong.
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The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?
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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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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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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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The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an equalizer.
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
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The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
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A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
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