During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.


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It continues to grow to a fixation.
ABBEY BRADWAY
Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell
EDWARD ABBEY
As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is a...
EDWARD ABBEY
In fact, I suspect that our only hope is disaster. Cruel tho' it is to say it, there has got to be a...
EDWARD ABBEY
Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not...
EDWARD ABBEY
A drink a day keeps the shrink away
EDWARD ABBEY
Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect - like a man - on his own l...
EDWARD ABBEY
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
EDWARD ABBEY
He's out of touch. He's not feeling anything. He's done what he set out to do.
ABBEY BRADWAY
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough a...
EDWARD ABBEY
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem
EDWARD ABBEY
The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of pe...
EDWARD ABBEY
A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repress...
EDWARD ABBEY
Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
EDWARD ABBEY
There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
EDWARD ABBEY
Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.
EDWARD ABBEY
Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
EDWARD ABBEY
But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
EDWARD ABBEY
Although it is a fine page-turner, we cannot commend or endorse the contentious and wayward religiou...
WESTMINSTER ABBEY
To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, ...
EDWARD ABBEY
Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
EDWARD ABBEY
Devoted though we must be to the conservation cause, I do not believe that any of us should give it ...
EDWARD ABBEY
Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as ...
EDWARD ABBEY
Harsh reality is always better than false hope.
DOWNTON ABBEY
How to pry the tourists out of their automobiles, out of their back-breaking upholstered mechanized ...
EDWARD ABBEY
This sweet virginal primitive land will metaphorically breathe a sigh of relief --like a whisper of ...
EDWARD ABBEY
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.
EDWARD ABBEY
I'm constantly on the go and have found rushing round after a new born baby is the best form of ...
ABBEY CLANCY
Not all questions can be answered.
EDWARD ABBEY
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
DEAR ABBEY
How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?
EDWARD ABBEY
The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real ...
EDWARD ABBEY
Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bomb...
EDWARD ABBEY
I doubt that my sense of personal freedom is any stronger than anybody else's. I'm happy to respect ...
EDWARD ABBEY
Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.
EDWARD ABBEY