Truth Quotes by Edward Abbey

17 Truth quotes by Edward Abbey

Edward Abbey’s reflections on truth are as raw and untamed as the deserts he loved. Across 17 lines, his sharp wit and fierce love for the wild converge on a theme that cuts to the core of authenticity.

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The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.

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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

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The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

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What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.

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Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where, precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In…

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“But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be…

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“If I had been as capable of trust as I am susceptible to fear I might have learned something new or some…

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It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power,…

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Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record…

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The national parks belong to everyone. To the people. To all of us. The government keeps saying so and maybe, in this…

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The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you;…

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“I'd like to see North America become a dry, sunny, sandy region inhabited mainly by lizards, buzzards and a modest human population…

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“The novel should tell the truth, as I see the truth, or as the novelist persuades me to see it. And one…

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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

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“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,…

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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…

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

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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? Why the…

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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.

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

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