Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Alcohol
Keeping
Infantilism
Cool
Kerouac
Worked
Refrigerator
Sick
Refrigerators
Died
Lap
Hard
Mama
Like
Jack
More quotes by Edward Abbey
Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
Edward Abbey
One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.
Edward Abbey
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
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
I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
Edward Abbey
We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
Edward Abbey
Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
Edward Abbey
Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
Edward Abbey
We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
Edward Abbey
Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
Edward Abbey
One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
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
Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.
Edward Abbey
The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
Edward Abbey
Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
Edward Abbey
Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)
Edward Abbey
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
Edward Abbey
In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.
Edward Abbey
Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.
Edward Abbey
In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
Edward Abbey