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Edward Abbey Quotes

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American Author January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989

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People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book. Buy it, yes, but don't read it. [Regarding "The Fool's Progress"] Edward Abbey
Gluttony - that's my vice & curse. I want too much of everything. Books... Love... Music... Color & Form... Philosophy... Travel & Adventure... the result of this bestial lust is the indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of my energies - wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing. Edward Abbey
A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed. Or so it is with me. Thus my writing life consists of spells of languor alternating with fits and spasms of mad typing. At all times, though, I keep a journal, a record book, and most everything begins in the form of notes scribbled down on the pages of that journal. Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey quote: "The best thing about graduating from the university was that I..."
The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book. Edward Abbey
I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand. Edward Abbey
Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp. Edward Abbey
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey quote: "Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's..."
Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate. Edward Abbey
I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another book on the subject. Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey quote: "But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing..."
But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books. Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey quote: "Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force..."
Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers. Edward Abbey

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