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• Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect uniso
  Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement....
• A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face.
  But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner....
• Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely. -- Edward Abbey
• A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak. -- Edward Abbey
• Simplicity is always a virtue. -- Edward Abbey
• Life is hard? True--but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
  -- Mignon McLaughli...
• A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• What are called inspirational books, like Gibran's "The Prophet" or Bach's "Seagull", seem to have been strained through a bowl of fish-eye tapioca.
  -- Edward Abbey...