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• My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Books are like eggs--best when fresh. -- 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...
• If the life of natural things, millions of years old does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred?
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
  Kahlil Gibran, from The Prophe...
• The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• My books are not taken seriously. But that's all right; they are given playfully. -- Edward Abbey