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• There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization.
  Civilization remains a remote ideal. -- Edward Abbey...
• Art, science, philosophy, religion--each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents. -- Edward Abbey
• One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players.
  Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion. -- Anatol Rapopo...
• One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it.
  A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco....
• Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge.
  Probably tertiary. -- Edward Abbey...
• One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
  -- Alice Jame...
• 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....