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• Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Jail, Giving

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

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• Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.

  Edward Abbey

  Girl, Horse, Boys

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• If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.

  Edward Abbey

  World, Irrational, Knows

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.53, Macmillan

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• Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.

  Edward Abbey

  Wall, Writing, Two

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• Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

  Edward Abbey

  Clouds, Air, Weather

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.107, University of Arizona Press

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• Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

  Edward Abbey

  Heart, Relaxation, Mind

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

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• In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)

  Edward Abbey

  Past, Clouds, Watches

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.40, University of Arizona Press

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• I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Trying, May

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

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• Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

  Edward Abbey

  Reality, Trying, Quotation Marks

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

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• Life: another day, another dolor.

  Edward Abbey

  Another Day

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

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• Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Facts, Needs

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

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• We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?

  Edward Abbey

  Suicide, Book, Home

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• We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

  Edward Abbey

  Travel, Needs, Wilderness

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.

  Edward Abbey

  Disorder, Improvisation, Chaotic

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

  Edward Abbey

  Fun, Writing, Two

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• How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

  Edward Abbey

  Intellectual, Controversial, Interest

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

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• I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not
  realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.

  Edward Abbey

  Brother, Doe, Realizing

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• The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, Home, Government

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.373, Macmillan

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• A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

  Edward Abbey

  Fungi, Critics, Oaks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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• Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

  Edward Abbey

  Reason

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

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• The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.

  Edward Abbey

  Kitchen, Add, Novel

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Sacrifice, Squares

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

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• Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.

  Edward Abbey

  Distance, Kids, Work Out

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

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• Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

  Edward Abbey

  Giving, Rainbow, Matter

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

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• Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.

  Edward Abbey

  Gravestone, Epitaph, Please

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

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