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Only the half-mad are wholly alive.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Alive
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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
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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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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'
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What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?
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Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.
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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?
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For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
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