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Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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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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Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.
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A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
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Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
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Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
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Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
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One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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All governments require enemy governments.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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