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Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Music
Kingdom
Kingdoms
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Heaven
Lying
Inexpressible
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage and without courage all other virtues are useless.
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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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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The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.
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If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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Guns don't kill people people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom because we like the smell of danger.
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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.
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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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