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From Quotes by Edward Abbey
- The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and…
- In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl,…
- The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
- King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on…
- A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power…
- The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
- In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.
- Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.
- I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central…
- Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and…
- Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.
- There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.
- The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even…
- When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade…
- The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another…
- There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.
- I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am…
- How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great…
- Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic…
- Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
- The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?
- The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and…
- Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and…
- Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
- Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of…
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