Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 12

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• We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

  Edward Abbey

  Two, Giving, Superstitions

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

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• I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Central Park, Years

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

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• Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where,
  precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In
  between? Or somewhere else?

  Edward Abbey

  Eye, Air, Somewhere Else

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• We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.

  Edward Abbey

  Littles, Answers, World

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• I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

  Edward Abbey

  Confused, Years, America

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• Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, Government, Liberty

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.23, RosettaBooks

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• This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

  Edward Abbey

  World, May, Illusion

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

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• Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.

  Edward Abbey

  Race, Nuclear, Arms

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

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• The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.

  Edward Abbey

  Fantastic, Theology, Ideology

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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• A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more
  grotesque, like a soul without a body.

  Edward Abbey

  Passion, Men, Soul

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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• A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

  Edward Abbey

  Rose, Ink, Use

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

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• Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

  Edward Abbey

  Sick, Alcohol, Mama

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

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• My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Ambition, Meditation

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

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• Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.

  Edward Abbey

  Meaningful, Blessing, Mind

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

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• Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.

  Edward Abbey

  Balls, Retreat, Sides

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• Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

  Edward Abbey

  Taken, People, Important

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• Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful work, keeping their families together and taking an active part in the health of their communities, opposing what is evil (in one way or another) and defending what is good. Heroes do not want power over others.

  Edward Abbey

  Hero, People, Evil

  "Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast".

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• I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.

  Edward Abbey

  Way, Resistance, Unnecessary

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

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• Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

  Edward Abbey

  Government, People, Violence

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.

  Edward Abbey

  Feminist, Doe, Grievance

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

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• A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.

  Edward Abbey

  Miserable, Obsessed, Hard

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

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• Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.

  Edward Abbey

  Believe, Mind, Ghost

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

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• I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

  Edward Abbey

  Hate, Philosophy, School

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

  Edward Abbey

  Knowledge, Earth, Pay

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

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• The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.

  Edward Abbey

  Saving, Wilderness, Left

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