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Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.
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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
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Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles....
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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.
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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
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To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.
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One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please.
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The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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Edward Abbey
Born:
January 29, 1927
Died:
March 14, 1989
(aged 62)
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