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• Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum.
  We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about. -- Edward Abbey...
• In a study of reading habits of Leeville citizens conducted by the University of Leeville, most respondents said they preferred literary classics as reading material.
  However, a follow-up study conducted by the same researchers found that the type of book most frequently checked out of each of the public libraries in Leeville was the mystery novel....
• Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and "The Last Whole Earth Catalog".
  -- Edward Abbey...
• There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• A life without tragedy would not be worth living. -- Edward Abbey
• One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word. -- Edward Abbey
• A pretty girl can do no wrong. -- Edward Abbey