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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence? — Edward Abbey

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds. — Edward Abbey

I believe you are a wizard, Mr. Holmes. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Gaze not too long into the abyss, lest the abyss gaze into thee. — Edward Abbey

In the first place, you can't see anything from a car. — Ed Abbey

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. — Lynn Abbey

If I had been as capable of trust as I am susceptible to fear I might have learned something new or some truth so very old we have all forgotten it. — Edward Abbey

It sounds like you aren't used to having something so powerful between your legs," Abbey said. "Maybe you should let me drive. — Shawn Keenan

I can't stop staring at my beautiful new baby. — Abbey Clancy

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear. — Edward Abbey

Beware of the man who has no enemies. — Edward Abbey

The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature. — Edward Abbey

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great. — Edward Abbey

The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe
fear and awe of the State. — Edward Abbey

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be. — Edward Abbey

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge. — Lynn Abbey

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever. — Edward Abbey

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all. — Edward Abbey

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

Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it! — Edward Abbey

Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds. — Edward Abbey

The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while. — Edward Abbey

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight. — Edward Abbey

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal. — Edward Abbey

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares. — Edward Abbey

Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one. — Edward Abbey

Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted. — Edward Abbey

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper. — Edward Abbey

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

A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage. — Edward Abbey

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving. — Edward Abbey

Reason is and ought to be, as Hume said, the slave of the passions. — Edward Abbey

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country. — Edward Abbey

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

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock. — Edward Abbey

We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here. — Edward Abbey

It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you
can you really be in love with James? — Jane Austen

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward. — Edward Abbey

Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway. — Edward Abbey

The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey. — Sam Snead

Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons. — Edward Abbey

People will consider me a part of their lives for however long 'Downton Abbey' lasts. It's a lovely thing to feel as an actor. — Michelle Dockery

Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism. — Edward Abbey

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. — Edward Abbey

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable. — Edward Abbey

You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules.
Abbey Drake — Christine Feehan

Poetry
even bad poetry
may be our final hope. — Edward Abbey

Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart. — Edward Abbey

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space. South — Edward Abbey

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you. — Edward Abbey

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat. — Lynn Abbey

As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty. — Edward Abbey

I actually don't watch much TV, but my goal is to watch 'Downton Abbey.' I want to catch up on the series ... that's like my style. — Kelly Rutherford

Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool. — Edward Abbey

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. — Edward Abbey

'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is. — Phyllis Logan

Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely. — Edward Abbey

I love being a mum. Sophia is so funny and has a great personality. — Abbey Clancy

How can I be so evil? It ain't easy. — Edward Abbey

Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand. — Edward Abbey

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey

I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up. — Abbey Clancy

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

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm. — Edward Abbey

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn. — Edward Abbey

The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else. — Edward Abbey

A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow. — Edward Abbey

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41) — Edward Abbey

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate. — Edward Abbey

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement. — Lynn Abbey

Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race. — Edward Abbey

The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart. — Abbey Lincoln

My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.' — Allison Williams

A world without open country would be universal jail. — Edward Abbey

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried. — Edward Abbey

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers. — Edward Abbey

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. — Jane Austen

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one. — Edward Abbey

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed. — Edward Abbey

Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it. — Edward Abbey

Wilderness. The word itself is music. — Edward Abbey

What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger. — Edward Abbey

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront. — Edward Abbey

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State. — Edward Abbey

My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

Why this cult of wilderness? ... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger. — Edward Abbey

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature. — Edward Abbey

The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow. — Edward Abbey

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath. — Lynn Abbey

I love to read, and I love Martina Cole. — Abbey Clancy

I am against all forms of government, including good government. — Edward Abbey

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly. — Edward Abbey

We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view. — Edward Abbey

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. — Edward Abbey

Mountains complement desert as desert compliments city, as wilderness compliments and completes civilization. — Edward Abbey

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do. — Edward Abbey

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them? — Edward Abbey

The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?) — Edward Abbey