Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 17

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• A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American.

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  Risk, Minorities, Alive

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.202, Holt Paperbacks

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• I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.

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  Reality, Mets, Knows

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• Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

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  Fun, Adventure, Climbing

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.

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  Worst, Bores, Sparkling

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

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• My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

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  Years, Twenties, Computer

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

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• Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Men, Two

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.

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  Book, Oblivion, New Books

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

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• The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

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  Knowledge, Earth, Pay

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

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• Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

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  Horse, Plato, Philosophy

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

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• The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

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  Thinking, Vanity, World

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

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• The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

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  Pieces, Insolence, Repetition

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.

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  Religious, Horse, Crazy

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

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• The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

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  Punishment, Inspire, Purpose

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

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• The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will not believe you; your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.

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  Beautiful, Girl, Laughter

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

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• One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.

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  Self, Hatred, Self Hatred

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

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• 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?

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  Reading, Hands, Mind

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

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• We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.

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  Machines, Saving, More Time

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

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• We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.

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  Men, Space, Phrases

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.55, University of Arizona Press

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• For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.

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  Mean, Men, Ends

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

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• Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

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  Men, Circles, Wish

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

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• Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

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  Symphony, Musical, Trying

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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• You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

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  Human Nature, Humans, Human Beings

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

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• The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.

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  Hawks, Cry, Beaks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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• The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

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  Positive, Years, Atheism

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

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  Government, Liberty, Form

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

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