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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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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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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.
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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.
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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
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It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.
Edward Abbey
Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
Edward Abbey
Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
Edward Abbey
The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
Edward Abbey
Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
Edward Abbey
Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
Edward Abbey
I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
Edward Abbey
To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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