"All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?"

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Edward Abbey

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“The epiphany for me was that I wasnt a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.”
“That's a big responsibility, and the details obsess me. And, also, I no longer feel I have to do the Tonight Show every time I open my mouth. Twenty years ago, I told myself I'd rather direct than act, and it's taken me this long. You lose your passion in acting. You make too many mistakes. Maybe that's why I make so many movies; if you don't like this one, another one's opening on Tuesday. But then I spent six months of my life on 'At Long Last Love,' a picture nobody saw. I enjoyed making it, I learned from it, I grew, but that's too much time out of my life.”
“All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.”
“We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.”
“Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.”
“What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.”
“You don't study photography, you just do it.”
“I'd like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best.”

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