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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Salome
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When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking namely, life.
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage and without courage all other virtues are useless.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.
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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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