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• When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best. -- Edward Abbey
• A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word.
  The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense....
• King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state
  Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this....
• 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...
• A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible. -- Edward Abbey
• No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February. -- Edward Abbey
• Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature. -- Edward Abbey
• The monkey speaks his mind.