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Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views. His best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by environmental groups, and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire.

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Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Atheist, Belief, Dream, Failure, Imagination

Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.

Museums, World Literature, Pay, Classics, Suggest, Artifacts

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

Appetite, Atheist, Men, Point, Positive, Tapeworm

I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans. . . . And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

Animal, Children, Men, Older, Rocks, Things

The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.

Availability, Like, Sex, Suicide

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

Buy, Grace, Love, Needs, Pride

I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.

Be Good, Good, Intend, Long, Natural, Rest

Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.

Beware, Come, Probably, True, Wish, Wishes

In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.

Brain, Brawn, Different, Men, Race

Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.

Course, Enemy, Lying, Promote, Record, Writing

We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

Diversity, Elegant, Hiking, Journey, Sly, Snakes

I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.

Heart, Human, New York, Region, Virginia, West

Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.

Arms, Human, Nuclear, Oppose, Race

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

Home, Men, Rifles, Rifle, Rood

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

Art, Beauty, Inspire, Nature, Nature And Life

Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.

Animal, Lovable, Men, Understand

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

Flower, Hold, Long, Nature, Spontaneous

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

Inspirational, Tree, Giants, Tiny, Titmouse, Shade

Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_. ) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.

Edmund, Forgive, Judging, Patriotic, Taste, War

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

Antics, Filled, Statesmen, Time, Vacuums, Waiting

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