Quote

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

Edward Abbey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Merely
Nerve
Communication
Trivial
Bombardment
Fashion
Cliche
Gibberish
Threats
Wracking
Nerves
Cliches
Advertising
Fashions
Instant
Fads
Threat
Frantic

More quotes by Edward Abbey

Image
Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
Edward Abbey
Image
In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
Edward Abbey
Image
Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
Edward Abbey
Image
Guns don't kill people people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
Edward Abbey
Image
A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
Edward Abbey
Image
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
Edward Abbey
Image
The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
Edward Abbey
Image
I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
Edward Abbey
Image
One 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 Abbey
Image
The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
Edward Abbey
Image
We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
Edward Abbey
Image
In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
Edward Abbey
Image
I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
Edward Abbey
Image
The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
Edward Abbey
Image
A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
Edward Abbey
Image
I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
Edward Abbey
Image
The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
Edward Abbey
Image
Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
Edward Abbey
Image
You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
Edward Abbey
Image
Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
Edward Abbey