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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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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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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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All governments require enemy governments.
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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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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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
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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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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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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an equalizer.
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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