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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.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• The basic question is this: Why should *anything* exist?
  *Nothing* would be tidier. -- Edward Abbey...
• There is a kind of poetry in simple fact. -- Edward Abbey
• Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soo
  othing but words. -- Edward Abbey...
• Doctors often prescribe medicines about which they know relatively little for diseases about which they know even a little less, in people about whom they know practically nothing.
  It is a real wonder that, under these circumstances, the patient even survives, as most of them do....
• Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do. -- Edward Abbey
• Most Christians don't know anything about Christianity.
• Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork. -- Harold Lowma
• When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
  -- Edward Abbey...