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Said Quotes by Edward Abbey
- Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons,…
- Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
- My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
- Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the…
- As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'
- Nature, like Miamonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.
- There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of…
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