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• The best American writers have come from the hinterlands--Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck.
  Most of them never even went to college. -- Edward Abbey...
• All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love--and most of all, an audience!
  -- Edward Abbey...
• There never was a good war or a bad revolution. -- Edward Abbey
• As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases. -- Edward Abbey
• Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once. -- Edward Abbey
• There is this to be said for walking: It's the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two fee
  upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog....
• Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful. -- Edward Abbey
• There has never been an "original" sin: each is quite banal. -- Edward Abbey