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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

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
Savages
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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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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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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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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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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
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