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
adventure climbing half
Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.
regret suffering half
I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
mad alive half
Only the half-mad are wholly alive.
children half dozen
If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.
war officers
War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
self hatred self-hatred
One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.
artist decline trajectory
There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.
littles facts academic
Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
school ivy league
Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
artist veils seven
Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.
art political world
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
tombstone great-work ends
James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
towns trouble building
When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
dog tick critics
Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.