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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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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Novelist
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Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.
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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.
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The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
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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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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.
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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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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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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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