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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.

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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
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
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The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
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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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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
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Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
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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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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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Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.
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