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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.

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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
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Sympathy
Intelligence
Arms
Knowledge
Reason
Love

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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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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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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature they distort it.
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For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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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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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
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How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.
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