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• The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be.
  Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot....
• 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...
• Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
  A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite....
• Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
  -- Edward Abbey...