Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 24

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• One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.

  Edward Abbey

  Byzantium, Oklahoma, One Day

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.

  Edward Abbey

  Moving, Agreement, Voice

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

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• In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Soul, Body

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

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• I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Selective

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

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• Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.

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  Crazy, Enemy, World

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

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• My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

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  Dog, Stories, Lines

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

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• It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Reviews, Reviewers

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

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• There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with the best of intentions, and I recommend it to every serious wino.

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  Wine, Night, Serious

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• Life is cruel? Compared to what?

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  Life Is

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

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• One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.

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  Couple, Years, Cities

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

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• Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Ideas, Smell

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

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• Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.

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  Law, Space, Alaska

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

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• A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.

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  Character, Men, Age

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

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• Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end.

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  Horse, West, Ends

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

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• The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.

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  Aquariums, Violet, Ink

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

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• When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

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  Worry, Hopeless, Situation

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

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• Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

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  Reading, Worth Reading, Ifs

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

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• Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.

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  Book, Eggs

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

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• Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

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  Nutcrackers, Reincarnation

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

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• If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally.

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  Hate, Latin, Rhythm

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

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• The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

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  Symphony, Shostakovich, Form

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

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• Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.

  Edward Abbey

  Rights, Rocks, Black

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

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• Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

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  School, Unity, Cows

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

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• Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

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  Men, Opera, Sopranos

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

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• The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.

  Edward Abbey

  Believe, Listening, Lasts

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

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