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• Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea
  but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in. -- Edward Abbey...
• Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand
  Man is not a lovable animal. -- Edward Abbey...
• The mind is everything," wrote Proust. No doubt true, when you're dead from the neck down.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair. -- Edward Abbey
• The dog's life is a good life, for a dog. -- Edward Abbey
• Tho' lost to sight, to mem'ry dear / Thou ever wilt remai
  One only hope my heart can cheer,-- / The hope to meet again....
• To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious.
  But the stupid have an answer for every question. -- Edward Abbey...
• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• If the life of natural things, millions of years old does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred?
  -- Edward Abbey...