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Thing Quotes by Edward Abbey
- One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.
- The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
- Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.
- Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
- The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee- pad conservative....
- Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging…
- Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The…
- Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
- I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.
- One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
- It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
- The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself.…
- Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
- The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
- The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority…
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