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A mother’s sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage (Edward Abbey Quotes)
It’s a fool’s life, a rogue’s life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave (Edward Abbey Quotes)
If you feel that you’re not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes (Edward Abbey Quotes)
I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth (Edward Abbey Quotes)
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century (Edward Abbey Quotes)
The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all (Edward Abbey Quotes)
To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires (Edward Abbey Quotes)
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 (Edward Abbey Quotes)
I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Anywhere, anytime, I’d sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you’ve nothing better to do (Edward Abbey Quotes)
A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times (Edward Abbey Quotes)
When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best (Edward Abbey Quotes)
My own best books have not been published. In fact, they’ve not even been written yet (Edward Abbey Quotes)
It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written (Edward Abbey Quotes)
It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author’s book (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I’ve always found the second approach the more pleasing (Edward Abbey Quotes)
There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It’s not as easy as it looks (Edward Abbey Quotes)
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? (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure (Edward Abbey Quotes)
It is not the writer’s task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero (Edward Abbey Quotes)
As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity (Edward Abbey Quotes)