Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 23

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• Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.

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  Girl, Wanted

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

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• The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

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  Jobs, Artist, Miracle

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

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• What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

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  Book, Hero, Brave

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.15, Macmillan

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• I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

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  Men, Snakes, Humanist

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.

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  Real, Blood, Sweat

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.39, Big Earth Publishing

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• Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

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  Reading, Worth Reading, Ifs

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

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• There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

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  Book, Two, Democracy

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

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• To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?

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  Dad, Fear, Smell

  edward abbey (1976). “the monkey wrench gang”

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• When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.

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  Done, Second Best, Should

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

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• Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

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  Growing Up, Careers, Grows

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

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• Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

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  Mind, Cobwebs, Metaphysics

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

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• It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.

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  Book, Reviews, Reviewers

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

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• My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

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  Dog, Stories, Lines

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

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• Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

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  School, Ivy, League

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

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• Cowboys make better lovers: Ask any cow.

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  Cowboy, Cows, Lovers

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

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• The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

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  Vocabulary, Entrepreneur, Taught

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

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• Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

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  Kissing, Garden, Feet

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

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  Art, Soul, Body

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

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  Self, Objectivity, Moral

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• A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.

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  Army, Journey, Two

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• We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

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  Survival, Machines, World

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• In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

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  Art, Political, World

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

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• It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

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  Events, Fiction, Written

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

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• Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.

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  Lakes, Hands, Sea

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

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• Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables

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  Years, Lazy, Sitting

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.52, University of Arizona Press

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