Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 25

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• In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

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  Art, Political, World

  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.

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  Book, Reviews, Reviewers

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

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• To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.

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  Communication, Writing, Winter

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

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• We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

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  Survival, Machines, World

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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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• Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.

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  Heaven, Grace, Wealth

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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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• Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.

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  Girl, Flower, Enough

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

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  Book, Ideas, Smell

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

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• Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

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  Symphony, Perfect, Strive

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, 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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• Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

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  Beer, Sunday, Afternoon

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

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• To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.

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  Forever, Ask Me, Asks

  "The Journey Home : Some Words in Defense of the American West" by Edward Abbey, (p. 205), 1977.

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• The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

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  Thinking, Study, Physics

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• I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.

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  Communication, Race, Ideas

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.7, University of Arizona Press

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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.

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  Rights, Rocks, Black

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

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

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  Believe, Listening, Lasts

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

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• I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

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  Men, Snakes, Humanist

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Art, Soul, Body

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

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  Moving, Agreement, Voice

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

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