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Mildly talented in a variety of ways but with no genuine ability i

Mildly talented in a variety of ways but with no genuine ability in any one field, she was like me, the perennial hapless self-amused dilettante, half-worried by the slippage of time but determined to enjoy failure anyway. – Edward Abbey

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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism. – Edward Abbey

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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government, I says, but dont insult me poor bleedin country. – Edward Abbey

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