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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
Heart
Clarifies
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.
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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.
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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
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It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
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The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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