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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
Nutcracker
Suite
Reincarnation
Thing

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Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
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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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If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.
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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly it's the highway that is ugly.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
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The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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