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• A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak. -- Edward Abbey
• Is a mirage real? Well, it's a real mirage. -- 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
• Beware of the man who has no enemies. -- Edward Abbey
• There are only two kinds of books--good books and the others.
  The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time. -- Edward Abbey...
• There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve. -- Edward Abbey
• My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
  -- Edward Abbey...