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Point Quotes by Edward Abbey
- I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone…
- The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural…
- There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.
- How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in…
- Women who love only women may have a good point.
- Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
- Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a…
- From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
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