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• The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state.
  But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either....
• What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
  -- Louise Nevelso...
• Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
  -- Edward Abbey...
• A Mahler symphony is full of surprises--but each surprise, on second hearing, turns out to be an *inevitable* surprise.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.
  -- Edward Abbey...