“I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.”

— Edward Abbey

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

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American author and essayist 1927–1989

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