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Edward Abbey

"What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well."

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"Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it."

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"Write about the beauty of rainbows and the glint of reflected light that can enlighten readers' minds."

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"What is your advice to young writers? "Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes."

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"I hate and fear violence myself, have always avoided barroom brawls, and tho' I'm a bit of a gun-nut, and a member of the NRA, I never shoot at anything but beer cans and mule deer. (In season.) And seldom hit either, except by accident."
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"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell."
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"Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp."
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"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."
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"Anarchism is democracy taken seriously."
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"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country."
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"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."
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"Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing."
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"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit."
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