Edward Abbey quote database

For a few moments we discover that nothing can be taken for granted , for if this ring of stone is marvelous, and our journey here on earth, able to see and touch and hear in the midst of tangible & mysterious things in themselves , is this most strange & daring of all adventures.
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Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.
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Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.
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In our weird taboo-ridden cult-obsessed hypersensitive creed-crazy culture, anyone who attempts to examine tough social questions in a logical, analytic, empiric manner, must learn to expect a blizzard of rhetorical abouse from all sides.
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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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