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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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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
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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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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him he harms nobody and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
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All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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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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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead symmetrical but stiff.
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Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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