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Each Quotes by Edward Abbey
- The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
- Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as…
- Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the…
- No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
- One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work,…
- There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.
- Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
- Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.
- Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
- Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
- In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate.…
- Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
- I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
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- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud
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- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- Each day provides its own gifts. — Marcus Aurelius
- Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. — Marcus Aurelius
- Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find… — Paul Auster