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Edward Abbey Quotes

Edward Abbey quotes about reading

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
What I am really writing about, what I have always written about, is the idea of human freedom, human community, the real world which makes both possible, and the new technocratic industrial state which threatens the existence of all three. Life and death, that's my subject, and always has been - if the reader will look beyond the assumptions of lazy critics and actually read what I have written. Which also means, quite often, reading between the lines: I am a comic writer and the generation... 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
Should a writer have a social purpose? Any honest writer is bound to become a critic of the society he lives in, and sometimes, like Mark Twain or Kurt Vonnegut or Leo Tolstoy or Francois Rabelais, a very harsh critic indeed. The others are sycophants, courtiers, servitors, entertainers. Shakespeare was a sychophant; however, he was and is also a very good poet, and so we continue to read him. Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey quote: "The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led..."
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. Edward Abbey

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