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Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 23

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Photography, Data, Quality

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

Art, Soul, Body

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

Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.

Girl, Wanted

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

Art, Philosophy, Crude

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.29, RosettaBooks

The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.

Feminist, Doe, Grievance

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

Airplane, Civilization, Flight

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.

Girl, Rain, Utah

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.

Character, Men, Age

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

Character, Men, Race

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.29, RosettaBooks

Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

Beer, Sunday, Afternoon

"A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.

Business, Government, Self

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true - I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia.

Fate, Pigs, Utah

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.46, RosettaBooks

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

Symphony, Perfect, Strive

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.

Book, Ideas, Smell

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

Nutcrackers, Reincarnation

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

Book, Two, Democracy

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

Art, Pride, Taste

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

Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

Deny, Platitudes, Implications

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

Reading, Worth Reading, Ifs

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.

Book, Eggs

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

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. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.

Moving, Agreement, Voice

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

When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.

Regret, Mind, Midnight

Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.

Life, Business, Book

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

Simple, Facts, Kind

"The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader".

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 Emancipator.

Art, Perfect, Produce

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.40, RosettaBooks

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