“Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy…. Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.”

—  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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