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Love Quotes by Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey calls genocide ordinary, saying it is as human as mother love. He argues that love for the natural world is the only way to repay a divine love for it. He also points out that many people chase fame, money, and love while rarely using reason.

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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.

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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.

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Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.

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Life is cruel? Compared to what?

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Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.

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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.

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There are no vacant lots in nature.

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Women who love only women may have a good point.

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

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

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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.

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The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

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

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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

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How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a…

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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive…

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Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the…

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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

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The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the…

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Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is…

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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…

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“People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book.…

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“Gluttony - that's my vice & curse. I want too much of everything. Books... Love... Music... Color & Form... Philosophy... Travel &…

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“In demonstrating that humans behave with justice, tolerance, reason, love toward other forms of life, we are doing no more than demanding…

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“but love of the wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of…

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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual…

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The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no…

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“the love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty…

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The canyon country does not always inspire love. To many it appears barren, hostile, repellent - a fearsome mostly waterless land of…

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“i was accused of being against civilization, against science, against humanity. naturally, i was flattered and at the same time surprised, hurt,…

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“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness?…

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Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

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When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.

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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

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Man was created to complete the horse.

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A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationalist.

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Life imitates art -- but badly.

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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.

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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,…

“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave…

“Look here, I want to say, for godsake folks get out of them there machines, take off those fucking sunglasses and unpeel both eyeballs,…

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

“What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.”