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• In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Facts, Fidelity

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

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• Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Men, Two

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

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• I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

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  Technology, Eagles, Ravens

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.164, Macmillan

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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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• There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

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  Two, People, Groups

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

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• Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

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  Sea, Critics, Rail

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

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• My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

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  Years, Twenties, Computer

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

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• What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.

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  Differences, Atheism, Lone Ranger

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, 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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• Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

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  Couple, Needs, May

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

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• We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

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  Character, Men, Race

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.29, RosettaBooks

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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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• 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?

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  Independent, Honor, Doe

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

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• In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

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  Lying, Book, Writing

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

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• Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.

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  Stars, Flower, Sleep

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

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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.

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  Mean, Environmental, World

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

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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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• There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.

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  Sin, Original Sin, Originals

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

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  Simple, Facts, Kind

  "The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader".

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• Man was created to complete the horse.

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  Horse, Men

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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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• 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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• We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

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  Essentials, Useless, World

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

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• A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.

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  Cowboy, Boys, Hats

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

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