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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
— Edward Abbey
The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
— Edward Abbey
Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
— Edward Abbey
If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally.
— Edward Abbey
But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.
— Edward Abbey
Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best: They sweetly sleep who die upon her breast.
— Henry Abbey
We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.
— Abbey Lincoln
The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
— Edward Abbey
The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
— Edward Abbey
It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
— Edward Abbey
You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
— Edward Abbey
What's more American than violence?" Hayduke wanted to know. "Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.
— 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
I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does notrealize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers. — Edward Abbey
It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.
— Lynn Abbey
Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
— Edward Abbey
God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
— Edward Abbey
A man's duty? To be ready with rifle or rood
to defend his home when the showdown comes. — 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
James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
— Edward Abbey
'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful.
— Amanda Donohoe
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[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine.
— Edward Abbey
When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.
— Edward Abbey
It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.
— Lynn Abbey
It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
— Abbey Lee Kershaw
Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
— Edward Abbey
It's a great country: you can say whatever you like so long as it is strictly truenobody will ever take you seriously. — Edward Abbey
The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
— William Wordsworth
I don't get sick much because in the U.S. I always eat with my fingers, you know, to get used to the bacteria.
— Abbey Lee Kershaw
Look, it comes down to whether or not you love me! That's all! That's it! The rest is detail
— Tom Branson
No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next if not a damn sight better. — Edward Abbey
It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.
— Edward Abbey
Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.
— Edward Abbey
If you wish to see it as it should be seen, don't wait - there's little time. How do you get there? Well, I couldn't tell you.
— Edward Abbey
Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
— Edward Abbey
If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
— Edward Abbey
It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
— Edward Abbey
I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
— Edward Abbey
As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.
— Edward Abbey
The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
— Edward Abbey
The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.
— Edward Abbey
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
War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.
— 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
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
You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules.Abbey Drake — Christine Feehan
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
I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.
— Abbey Clancy
What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.
— 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
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
It's exhilarating, Abbey. You exhilarate me-Caspian — Jessica Verday
The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live ...
— Edward Abbey
The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
— Edward Abbey
There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.
— Edward Abbey
I must be the only person in 'Strictly' history who's actually put on weight during rehearsals.
— Abbey Clancy
When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
— Edward Abbey
It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
— Edward Abbey
The dog's life is a good life, for a dog.
— Edward Abbey
There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.
— Edward Abbey
I have not watched WAGs World, I have not watched the BBC's Upstairs, Downstairs, either. It would be Downton Abbey, I think.
— Theresa May
Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
— Edward Abbey
I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
— Abbey Lincoln
New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
— Abbey Lee Kershaw
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
— Edward Abbey
