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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.

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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
Salome
Veils
Seven
Thousand
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If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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Grown men do not need leaders.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
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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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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.
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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
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