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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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