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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
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Environmentalist
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Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Humans

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It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.
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Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.
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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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All living things on earth are kindred.
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)
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How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.
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