Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey
Edward Paul Abbeywas an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views. His best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by radical environmental groups, and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth29 January 1927
CountryUnited States of America
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There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.
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It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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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.
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It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
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The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.
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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.
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
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Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_.) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.