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Simplicity is always a virtue.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Life
Simplicity
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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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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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead symmetrical but stiff.
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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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Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.
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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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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
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