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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
Taste
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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead symmetrical but stiff.
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It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
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Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
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If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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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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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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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.
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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
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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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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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