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It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.

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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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Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.
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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.
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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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Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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A pretty girl can do no wrong.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
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When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)
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Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.
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