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• Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it.
  And to kill for it. -- Edward Abbey...
• What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once. -- Edward Abbey
• My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have. -- Grenville
• We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it.
  A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco....
• Poetry--even bad poetry--may be our final hope. -- Edward Abbey
• Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable. -- Edward Abbey