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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

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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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Taste
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?
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Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.
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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature they distort it.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?
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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him he harms nobody and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried 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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My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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