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Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 18

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

Life: another day, another dolor.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks