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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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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
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One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
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A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
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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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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.
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A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
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I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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Life: another day, another dolor.
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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