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• In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

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  Animal, Sound, Hungry

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

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• Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.

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  Pain, Sorrow, Why Not

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

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• I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

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  Suffering, Despise, Stills

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.151, Macmillan

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• Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.

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  Life Is, Unfair, Fairs

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.14, Macmillan

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• A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

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  Joy, Giants, Thirst

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• We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

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  Sick, Abnormal, Normal

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

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• I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

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  Death, Believe, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.

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  Views, People, Important

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

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• Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

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  Humility, Virtue

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

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• My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

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  Ambition, Someday, Enough

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.63, Holt Paperbacks

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• If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

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  Real, Purpose, Want

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

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  Wise, Men, Astrology

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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• You can't belay a man who's falling in love.

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  Falling In Love, Fall, Men

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

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• A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.

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  Dream, Genius, Duty

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.

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  Oxygen, Rebel, Looks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• Grown men do not need leaders.

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  Leadership, Maturity, Men

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

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• I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

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  Animal, Favors, Liberation

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

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• Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

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  Book, Bed, Cadavers

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

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• I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

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  Men, People, And Love

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

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• There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.

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  Suicide, Alternatives, Circumstances

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

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• In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.

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  Heart, Men, Dust

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness”

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• If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

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  Children, Ordinary, Half

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

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• There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.

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  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

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• Simplicity is always a virtue.

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  Life, Simplicity, Virtue

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

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• One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.

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  Personality, Enough, States

  Edward Abbey (1954). “Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader”, E P Dutton

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