Edward Abbey quote database

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Life is cruel? Compared to what?
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live....
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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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When a dog howls at the moon, we call it religion. When he barks at strangers, we call it patriotism.
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A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.