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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.

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
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Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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