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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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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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