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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Word
Freedom
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Humans
Became
Necessary

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I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.
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Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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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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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.
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