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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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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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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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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead symmetrical but stiff.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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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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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
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Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.
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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
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The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.
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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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