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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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.
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The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!
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When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
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Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rd-world black, lesbian, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.
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The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.
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Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.