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• Many books are written because they should not have been!
• 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...
• My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization.
  Civilization remains a remote ideal. -- Edward Abbey...
• Books are like eggs--best when fresh. -- Edward Abbey
• My books are not taken seriously. But that's all right; they are given playfully. -- Edward Abbey
• Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love. -- Edward Abbey
• The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
  -- Edward Abbey...