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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Music
Heart
Clarifies
Intellect
Clouds

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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
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The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an equalizer.
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
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A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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