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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.

Edward Abbey

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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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The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.
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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
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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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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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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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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
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A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
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The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you the public will not believe you your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.
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You long for success? Start at the bottom dig down.
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.
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If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.
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