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James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

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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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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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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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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
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Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.
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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.
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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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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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A pretty girl can do no wrong.
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Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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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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Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
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