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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.

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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
Evil
Easy

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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.
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Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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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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Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
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