Edward Abbey Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.

  Edward Abbey

  Life, Business, Book

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

• Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?

  Edward Abbey

  Reading, Hands, Mind

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

• The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

  Edward Abbey

  Reading, Men, Biographies

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

• Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

  Edward Abbey

  Reading, Worth Reading, Ifs

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

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