Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 18

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• Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.

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  Years, Anarchy, Thousand

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

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• Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.

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  Men, Fire, Self

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

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  Men, Jail, Giving

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

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• Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.

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  Girl, Horse, Boys

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• If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

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  Wilderness, Outlaw, Ifs

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

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• If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.

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  World, Irrational, Knows

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.53, Macmillan

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• My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

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  Book, Facts, My Own

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

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• Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

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  Heart, Relaxation, Mind

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

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

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  Reading, Men, Biographies

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

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• In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

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  Men, Sheep, Brave

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

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• The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

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  Artist, Technique, Truth Is

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

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• Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.

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  Wall, Writing, Two

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• A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

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  Book, Silence, Paper

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

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• I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

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  Writing, Trying, May

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

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• In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)

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  Past, Clouds, Watches

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.40, University of Arizona Press

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• Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

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  Clouds, Air, Weather

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.107, University of Arizona Press

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• Life: another day, another dolor.

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  Another Day

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

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  Reality, Trying, Quotation Marks

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

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• War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.

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  War, Officers

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

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• The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

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  Acceptance, Suffering Of Others, Heroic

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

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  Travel, Needs, Wilderness

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.

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  Disorder, Improvisation, Chaotic

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

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• Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

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  Men, Facts, Needs

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

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• We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?

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  Suicide, Book, Home

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• How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

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  Intellectual, Controversial, Interest

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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