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Something Quotes by Edward Abbey
- The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable…
- 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,…
- Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
- Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.
- Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence…
- Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the…
- My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
- Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the…
- What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
- The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed.…
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- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
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- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
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