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• Simplicity is always a virtue. -- Edward Abbey
• Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times.
  In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony. -- Edward Abbey...
• The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as virtue. -- Ambrose Bierce, on qualifie
• Freedom begins between the ears. -- Edward Abbey
• A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak. -- Edward Abbey
• A drink a day keeps the shrink away. -- Edward Abbey