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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Indolence

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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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Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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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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When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
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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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I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.
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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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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
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Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.
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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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Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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