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• Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain?
  Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots. -- Edward Abbey...
• My books are not taken seriously. But that's all right; they are given playfully. -- Edward Abbey
• Like any writer, I'd rather be read than dead. Like any serious *author*, I'd rather be dead than not read at all.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try. -- Edward Abbey
• My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: "Yeah," she said, "I'll be dead pretty soon.
  And frankly, I don't give a damn." -- Edward Abbey...
• We are all ONE, say the gurus. Aye, I might agree--but one WHAT? -- Edward Abbey
• All gold is fool's gold. -- Edward Abbey
• All governments require enemy governments. -- Edward Abbey
• All is One? But One is so Many! -- Edward Abbey