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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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All governments require enemy governments.
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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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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking namely, life.
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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.
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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
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