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Only the half-mad are wholly alive.

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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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Alive
Half
Wholly
Mad

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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
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You long for success? Start at the bottom dig down.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
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When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
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Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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