Edward Abbey Quotes About Wit

Quotes about: Wit

• The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

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  Pride, Grace, Needs

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

• The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

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  Laughter, Distrust, Wit

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

• Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead; symmetrical but stiff.

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  Sports, Butterfly, Example

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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