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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Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
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Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.
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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.
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There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.
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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
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Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.
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In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
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James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.