Quote by Edward Abbey
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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Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime. – Edward Abbey

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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. – Edward Abbey

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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! – Edward Abbey

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When my horse is running good, I dont stop to give him sugar. – William Faulkner

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. – Charles Caleb Colton

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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. – Douglas Everett

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Others have done it before me. I can, too. – Corporal John Faunce

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On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? Im constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that Ive been on. – Madonna Ciccone

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