Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 11

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• My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

  Edward Abbey

  Cousin, Wall, Thinking

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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• No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Long, Dams

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.46, RosettaBooks

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• The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.

  Edward Abbey

  College, London, Mark

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

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• The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!

  Edward Abbey

  Pills, World, Sake

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.48, RosettaBooks

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• Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?

  Edward Abbey

  Football, Team, Winning

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• If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Horse, Cheer

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• We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

  Edward Abbey

  Two, Giving, Superstitions

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.

  Edward Abbey

  Integrity, Vegetables, Cover Ups

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• Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where,
  precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In
  between? Or somewhere else?

  Edward Abbey

  Eye, Air, Somewhere Else

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• I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

  Edward Abbey

  Confused, Years, America

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• Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, Government, Liberty

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.23, RosettaBooks

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• This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

  Edward Abbey

  World, May, Illusion

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.

  Edward Abbey

  Race, Nuclear, Arms

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.

  Edward Abbey

  Fun, War, Nuclear

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

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• The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.

  Edward Abbey

  Fantastic, Theology, Ideology

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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• A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more
  grotesque, like a soul without a body.

  Edward Abbey

  Passion, Men, Soul

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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• Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

  Edward Abbey

  Taken, People, Important

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• A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

  Edward Abbey

  Rose, Ink, Use

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

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• Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.

  Edward Abbey

  Balls, Retreat, Sides

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• My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Ambition, Meditation

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.

  Edward Abbey

  Meaningful, Blessing, Mind

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

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• Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

  Edward Abbey

  Sick, Alcohol, Mama

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

  Edward Abbey

  Roots, Evil, And Love

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.53, RosettaBooks

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• Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.

  Edward Abbey

  Unhappy, Buzzards, Mexico

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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• Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

  Edward Abbey

  America, People, Democracy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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