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• What are called inspirational books, like Gibran's "The Prophet" or Bach's "Seagull", seem to have been strained through a bowl of fish-eye tapioca.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• A man without passion would be like a body without a soul.
  Or even more grotesque, like a soul without a body. -- Edward Abbey...
• A good memory does not equal pale ink.
• A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
  -- 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...
• What we have accomplished through jet-engine aircraft is the abolition of the journey.
  -- Edward Abbey...