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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

Edward Abbey

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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.
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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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