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• The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills. -- Edward Abbey
• Most writers are naturally sycophants. Born in the fetal position, they never learn to stand erect.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
  Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)...
• King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state
  Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this....
• My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
  American writting comes from that. There was nothing before....
• The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live.
  And we pay them for it. -- Edward Abbey...
• All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love--and most of all, an audience!
  -- Edward Abbey...