Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.
Edward AbbeyTags: paranoia
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 AbbeyTags: writing ideas working focus
Man is a gregarious creature, we are told, a social being. Does that mean he is also a herd animal?...Are men no better than sheep or cattle, that they must live always in view of one another in order to feel a sense of safety? I can't believe it!
Edward AbbeyThe consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
Edward AbbeyGod bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
Edward AbbeyI 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 AbbeyTags: environmentalism conservation wilderness
[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies.
Edward AbbeyTags: writers virtues duty critics-of-society
Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.
Edward AbbeyOne of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city -- as I once did for a couple of years.
Edward AbbeyTags: community small-towns roles
Those who have no sense of posterity or any concern for future generations are the ones who are really dead. I mean, they are dead right now. Walking zombies.
Edward AbbeyTags: posterity future-generations
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