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• The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live.
  And we pay them for it. -- 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...
• We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtue
  without courage, the other virtues are useless. -- Edward Abbey...
• Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do. -- Edward Abbey
• What we have accomplished through jet-engine aircraft is the abolition of the journey.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try. -- Edward Abbey
• The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.
  -- Edward Abbey...