Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 9

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• WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT:
  Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach that happy condition? Two ways

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Two, Desire

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.353, Big Earth Publishing

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• Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.

  Edward Abbey

  Atheist, Doubt, Islam

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

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• One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.

  Edward Abbey

  Play, Common Sense, Healthy

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

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• A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

  Edward Abbey

  Home, Men, Rifles

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Art, Museums

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.

  Edward Abbey

  Truth, Sorry, Knows

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• One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

  Edward Abbey

  Dollar Bills, Dollars, Cubs

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

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• Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.

  Edward Abbey

  Men

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

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• The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an "equalizer."

  Edward Abbey

  Military, Police, Democracy

  "Abbey's Road". Book by Edward Abbey, 1979.

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• Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.

  Edward Abbey

  Christian, Grotesque, Being True

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

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• Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

  Edward Abbey

  Hate, People, Musical

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

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• A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

  Edward Abbey

  Tragedy, Worth Living

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

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• High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

  Edward Abbey

  Spring, Technology, Simple

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

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• I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact
  I work only under duress.

  Edward Abbey

  Errors, Trial And Error, Trials

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

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• Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.

  Edward Abbey

  Museums, World Literature, Pay

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

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• Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

  Edward Abbey

  Positive, Brain, Tears

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

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• There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.

  Edward Abbey

  Depressing, Obscene

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

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• The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

  Edward Abbey

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

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• Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

  Edward Abbey

  Thinking, Thinking Alike

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• Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Real, Fall

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• Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.

  Edward Abbey

  Home, Animal, Cities

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.

  Edward Abbey

  Song, Eye, Sea

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game

  Edward Abbey

  Baseball, Opportunity, Games

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

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• The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Technology, Dachau

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal". Book by Edward Abbey (Chapter 11 "Money Et Cetera", p. 100), 1989.

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• I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

  Edward Abbey

  Regret, Suffering, Half

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

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