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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
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I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.
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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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Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.
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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?
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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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