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Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 25

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When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.

When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.

Done, Second Best, Should

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

Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.

Artist, Veils, Seven

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

To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.

Communication, Writing, Winter

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

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

Want, Rewards, Serious

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

There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.

Artist, Decline, Trajectory

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

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

Joy, Survival, Doe

Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

Dog, Stories, Lines

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

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

Men, Likes, February

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

Thinking, Study, Physics

Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

Kissing, Garden, Feet

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

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

Littles, Facts, Academic

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

The sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice; it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.

Children, Spring, College

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

Art, Political, World

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

It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.

Book, Reviews, Reviewers

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

Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.

Heaven, Grace, Wealth

What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.

Economist, Turns, Cleaners

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

Cowboys make better lovers: Ask any cow.

Cowboy, Cows, Lovers

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

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.

Males, Roosters, Cry

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

Mind, Cobwebs, Metaphysics

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

The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and anomie, cascades of short stories and rivers of novels obsessed with the nuances of domestic relationships - suburban hanky-panky - chic boutique shopping mall literary soap opera. When they do speak out on matters of controversy they attack not the evils of our time but fellow writers who may insist on complaining.

Speaks Out, Shopping, Rivers

Edward Abbey (1988). “One Life at a Time, Please”, p.172, Macmillan

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

Vocabulary, Entrepreneur, Taught

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

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

Jobs, Artist, Miracle

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

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.

Way, Resistance, Unnecessary

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

Life imitates art -- but badly.

Art

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

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

Believe, Hopeful, Happy Endings

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

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