Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 19

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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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• Man was created to complete the horse.

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  Horse, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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• Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

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  Airplane, Civilization, Flight

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

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  Men, Blood, Three

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.23, 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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• Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

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  Giants, Fool, Institutions

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, 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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• 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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• Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?

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  Reading, Hands, Mind

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

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  Men, Circles, Wish

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

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• War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.

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  War, Officers

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

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• You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

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  Human Nature, Humans, Human Beings

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

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  Government, Liberty, Form

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

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• The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.

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  Hawks, Cry, Beaks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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• Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

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  Symphony, Musical, Trying

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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