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Mark Quotes by Edward Abbey
- In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl,…
- Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
- 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 best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even…
- As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'
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