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• Life without music would be an intolerable insult. -- Edward Abbey
• Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. -- Edward Abbey
• Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.
  -- 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...
• The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.
  .. And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet. -- Edward Abbey...
• Women who love only women may have a good point. -- Edward Abbey
• One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers. -- Edward Abbey
• There is much to admire in the work of D. H. Lawrence--excepting his queer, soft, gooey, and epicene prose.
  -- Edward Abbey...