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• It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

  Edward Abbey

  Independent, Honor, Doe

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

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• Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

  Edward Abbey

  Giants, Fool, Institutions

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

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• Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

  Edward Abbey

  Fear, Military, War

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

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• Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_.) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Patriotic, Judging

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• I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.

  Edward Abbey

  Cowboy, World Literature, Certain

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• Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

  Edward Abbey

  Passion, Speak, Melancholy

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

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• No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Likes, February

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

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• Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Eggs

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

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• I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

  Edward Abbey

  Sloth, Heroic, Enterprise

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

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• Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

  Edward Abbey

  Joy, Survival, Doe

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.

  Edward Abbey

  Artist, Veils, Seven

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

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• Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.

  Edward Abbey

  Heaven, Grace, Wealth

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• The sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our
  birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice; it usually takes
  twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it
  out of them.

  Edward Abbey

  Children, Spring, College

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

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• There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Enemy, Tools

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

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• Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

  Edward Abbey

  Littles, Facts, Academic

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

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• I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Two, Rolls Royce

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• Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.

  Edward Abbey

  Style, Technique, Sake

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

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• In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Honesty, Clean

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

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• Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

  Edward Abbey

  Life, Flower, Flora And Fauna

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

  Edward Abbey

  Thinking, Study, Physics

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• A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Mother, Sorrow

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

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• It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.

  Edward Abbey

  Mean, Environmental, World

  Edward Abbey (1954). “Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader”, E P Dutton

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• Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Writing, Silence

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

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• There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.

  Edward Abbey

  Artist, Decline, Trajectory

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

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• The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.

  Edward Abbey

  Aquariums, Violet, Ink

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

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