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Why Quotes by Edward Abbey
- Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.
- New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live…
- The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.
- Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*.
- I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
- Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach…
- I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a…
- Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.
- Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark?…
- Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement.…
- Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of…
- Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
- Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)
- I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.
- Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little…
- Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.
- Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my…
- Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions…
More Why Quotes
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. — Frank Abagnale
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very… — Bashar al-Assad