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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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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.
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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.
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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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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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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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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)
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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.
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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
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