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• An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato or a, not too French, french bean must excite your languid spleen.
  For, if you walk down Picadilly with a poppy or lily in your medieval hand, every one will say, as you walk your flowery way...
• Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*. -- Edward Abbey
• Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies.
  To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss....
• My Publisher: "Yes, sooner or later, we all wake up dead!" -- Edward Abbey
• I'll have to get over this sooner or later. Why not now? --Louis Wu
• The poison of love so pure, it's deceiving...
• But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride.
  Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there....
• Homer: Who do you like in the afternoon games? Lisa
  Well, I like the 49ers because they're pure of heart, Seattle because they've got something to prove, and the Raiders because they always cheat....
• The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich. -- Edward Abbey