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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'
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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
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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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No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
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Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
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Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
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