The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“In demonstrating that humans behave with justice, tolerance, reason, love toward other forms of life, we are doing no more than demanding… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Gluttony - that's my vice & curse. I want too much of everything. Books... Love... Music... Color & Form... Philosophy... Travel &… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“but love of the wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of… — edward abbey Copy Share Image
The canyon country does not always inspire love. To many it appears barren, hostile, repellent - a fearsome mostly waterless land of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“the love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“i was accused of being against civilization, against science, against humanity. naturally, i was flattered and at the same time surprised, hurt,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness?… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“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… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
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