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• How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.

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  Girl, Rain, Utah

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

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• Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

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  Men, Blood, Three

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.23, RosettaBooks

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• Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

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  Nature, Conservation, Form

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.48, University of Arizona Press

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• In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

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  People, Church, Students

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

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  Airplane, Civilization, Flight

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

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  Skins, Way, Beauty Is Only Skin Deep

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.

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  Kings, White, Tables

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

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  Giants, Fool, Institutions

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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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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  Children, Passion, Foundation

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• I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.

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  Nuts, Fastidious, Fellows

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks

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• It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

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  Events, Fiction, Written

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

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  Pieces, Insolence, Repetition

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of
  love.

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  Arms, Reason

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

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• In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.

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  America, Rising, Levels

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

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• A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.

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  Army, Journey, Two

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• Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'

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  Writing, Police, Musical

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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• Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

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  Art, Philosophy, Crude

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.29, RosettaBooks

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• Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?

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  Reading, Hands, Mind

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

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  Men, Circles, Wish

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

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• War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.

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  War, Officers

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

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  Men, Jail, Giving

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.

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  Girl, Horse, Boys

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• The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.

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  Hawks, Cry, Beaks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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• Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

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  Symphony, Musical, Trying

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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• All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

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  Government, Liberty, Form

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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