Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 12

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• Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

  Edward Abbey

  Solitude, Depth, Madness

  "The Monkey Wrench Gang". Book by Edward Abbey, August 1, 1975.

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• A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Cowboy, Hands

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

  Edward Abbey

  Laughter, Distrust, Wit

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

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• Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.

  Edward Abbey

  Many Friends, Loses

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

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• I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Reviews, My Own

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

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• A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

  Edward Abbey

  Adults, Earth, Lasts

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

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• Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Great Art, Art Is

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

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• What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?

  Edward Abbey

  Stars, Clouds, June

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Men, Paradise

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

  Edward Abbey

  Thinking, Stupidity, Kind

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

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• God is love? Not bloody likely.

  Edward Abbey

  God Is Love, Bloody

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

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• As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

  Edward Abbey

  Sloth, Suffering, Action

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

  Edward Abbey

  Dip, May, Pool

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.

  Edward Abbey

  Age, Flesh, Spirit

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks

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• I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

  Edward Abbey

  Friendship, Betrayal, Fall

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

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• Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.

  Edward Abbey

  Machines, Wilderness, Left Behind

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.

  Edward Abbey

  Routine, Easier, Occasional

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

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• The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

  Edward Abbey

  Night, Roots, Acorns

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• The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

  Edward Abbey

  Work, World, Slave

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

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• The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.

  Edward Abbey

  Cowboy, American West, Revolution

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'

  Edward Abbey

  Cutting, Singing, Said

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.40, RosettaBooks

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• If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Numbers, Succeed

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.

  Edward Abbey

  Sacrifice, Laughing, Nuance

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

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• Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

  Edward Abbey

  Finals, May

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

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• The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Graduates, Best Things

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

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