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• Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soo
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• Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea
  but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in. -- Edward Abbey...
• The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills. -- Edward Abbey
• It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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• Books are like eggs--best when fresh. -- Edward Abbey
• Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one. -- Edward Abbey
• All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
• He who has no mind to trade with the devil, should be so wise as to keep from his shop. -- South