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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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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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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.
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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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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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Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.
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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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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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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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Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
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