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• Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

  Edward Abbey

  Solitude, Depth, Madness

  "The Monkey Wrench Gang". Book by Edward Abbey, August 1, 1975.

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• Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.

  Edward Abbey

  Heart, Clouds, Intellect

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

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• Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

  Edward Abbey

  Deny, Platitudes, Implications

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

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• The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

  Edward Abbey

  Thinking, Vanity, World

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

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• Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.

  Edward Abbey

  Worst, Bores, Sparkling

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

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• But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Records, May

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

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• Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor.

  Edward Abbey

  Race, Survival, Honor

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

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• Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Oblivion, New Books

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

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• Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

  Edward Abbey

  Fun, Adventure, Climbing

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

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• I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.

  Edward Abbey

  Reality, Mets, Knows

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• Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.

  Edward Abbey

  Sound, Theory, Capitalism

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.151, Macmillan

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• Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Plato, Philosophy

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

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• For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.

  Edward Abbey

  Mean, Men, Ends

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

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

  Edward Abbey

  Years, Anarchy, Thousand

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

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• The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

  Edward Abbey

  Positive, Years, Atheism

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

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Fire, Self

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

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

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Facts, My Own

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

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• Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.

  Edward Abbey

  Unhappy, Buzzards, Mexico

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Silence, Paper

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

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

  Edward Abbey

  Reading, Men, Biographies

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

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

  Edward Abbey

  Artist, Technique, Truth Is

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

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• The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.

  Edward Abbey

  Rain, Fire, Light

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.13, University of Arizona Press

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

  Edward Abbey

  Wilderness, Outlaw, Ifs

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

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• Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

  Edward Abbey

  America, People, Democracy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Cowboy, Hands

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

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