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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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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
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Economists
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Depressed
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Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
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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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The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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Grown men do not need leaders.
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.
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