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Word Quotes by Edward Abbey
- When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
- Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.
- Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
- Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
- Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.
- One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
- Wilderness. The word itself is music.
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