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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
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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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If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information (2) coherent knowledge (3) deep understanding (4) infinite loving wisdom (5) no more kidney stones, please.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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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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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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