My friends and I live in the American SW because we love it, and love it for its own sake - not merely because it's the last region of the forty-eight states to be buried under asphalt and greed.
Edward AbbeyAbout author
- Author's profession: Author
- Nationality: american
- Born: January 29, 1927
- Died: March 14, 1989
Related Authors
Topics
Quotes currently Trending
![K. D. Lang quote: "I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We..."](/pic/71971/600x316/quotation-k-d-lang-i-never-my-producer-never-we-never-let-myself-just.jpg)
![Vanna White quote: "I think people think of me as this elegant person because they..."](/pic/142563/600x316/quotation-vanna-white-i-think-people-think-of-me-as-this-elegant-person.jpg)
![Suzanne Collins quote: "Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death...."](/pic/344676/600x316/quotation-suzanne-collins-winning-means-fame-and-fortune-losing-means.jpg)
![Bill Ayers quote: "Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a..."](/pic/9922/600x316/quotation-bill-ayers-two-thousand-people-a-day-were-being-murdered-in.jpg)
When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has become a great burden to us. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. And Sabina - what had come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Had he tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot...
Milan Kundera