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• Books are like eggs--best when fresh. -- Edward Abbey
• The best American writers have come from the hinterlands--Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck.
  Most of them never even went to college. -- Edward Abbey...
• As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is *action*.
  However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth. -- Edward Abbey...
• When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. -- Edward Abbey
• The best cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. -- Edward Abbey
• The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best. -- Edward Abbey
• Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for.
  Money should be like grace--a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for. -- Edward Abbey...