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• The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies.
  This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board...
• In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
  -- P. L. Berge...
• wank /wangk/ n.,v.,adj. [Columbia University: prob.
  by mutation from Commonwealth slang v. `wank', to masturbate] Used much as hack is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever technique or person or the result of such cleverness....
• wank: /wangk/ [Columbia University: prob. by mutation from Commonwealth slang v.
  `wank', to masturbate] n.,v. Used much as {hack} is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever technique or person or the result of such cleverness....
• Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. -- Edward Abbey
• The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill! -- Edward Abbey
• Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation mark
  He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you. -- Edward Abbey...
• 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...