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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.
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If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
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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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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
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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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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.
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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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When I write paradise I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.
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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
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