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Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 24

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If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally.

If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally.

Hate, Latin, Rhythm

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

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

Symphony, Shostakovich, Form

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

The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.

Aquariums, Violet, Ink

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

Men, Opera, Sopranos

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

I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.

Writing, Selective

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.

Believe, Listening, Lasts

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

There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with the best of intentions, and I recommend it to every serious wino.

Wine, Night, Serious

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

One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.

Byzantium, Oklahoma, One Day

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

Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

Life, Flower, Flora And Fauna

Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

Yesterday, News, Newspapers

"A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal". Book by Edward Abbey (Chapter 11 "Money Et Cetera", p. 100), 1989.

Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.

Too Late, Honest, Should

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.53, RosettaBooks

Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

School, Ivy, League

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

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

Passion, Speak, Melancholy

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

Couple, Needs, May

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

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 sake of technique.

Style, Technique, Sake

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end.

Horse, West, Ends

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

Life without music would be an intolerable insult.

Would Be, Insult, Life Without Music

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

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

School, Unity, Cows

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

Skins, Way, Beauty Is Only Skin Deep

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

What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.

Arms, Reason

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

Essentials, Useless, World

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

Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.

Men, Guru, Should

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

Events, Fiction, Written

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.

Girl, Flower, Enough

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

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

Growing Up, Careers, Grows

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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