Edward Abbey Quotes

653 quotes · Author, Environmentalist

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Edward Abbey Quotes

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Edward Abbey

Author, Environmentalist

Determined

“I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.”

Errors Trials Trial And Error

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Edward Abbey

Author, Environmentalist

Philosophical

“Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.”

Brain Positive Tears

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Philosophical

“What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.”

Knows Truth

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Inspired

“A life without tragedy would not be worth living.”

Tragedy Worth Living

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Grateful

“The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.”

College London Mark

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Philosophical

“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.”

Sports Humanity Gentleman

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Angry

“The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.”

Revolution Cowboy

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Philosophical

“A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.”

Men Horse

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Happy

“I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.”

Heart New York Virginia

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Philosophical

“Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.”

West Scientist Willing

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Philosophical

“King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.”

White Kings Tables

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Nostalgic

“One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.”

One Day Oklahoma Byzantium

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