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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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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
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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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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
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In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
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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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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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