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• A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. -- Edward Abbey
• There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline. -- Edward Abbey
• Like any writer, I'd rather be read than dead. Like any serious *author*, I'd rather be dead than not read at all.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
  A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite....
• Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand. -- Edward Abbey
• The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• 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...