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Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes: As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.
         

As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.


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As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.
         



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