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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.

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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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
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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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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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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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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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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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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.
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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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