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In social institutions, the wh...

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Fence straddlers have no balls...

Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

The ideal kitchen-sink novel: ...

The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

My notion of a great novel is ...

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

My books always make the best-...

My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Some people write to please, t...

Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

There is a fine art to making ...

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Too many American authors have...

Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

In art as in life, form and su...

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

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Great art is never perfect; pe...

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Shakespeare wrote great poetry...

Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II?

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

There comes a point, in litera...

There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

In order to write a book, it i...

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

A good writer must have more t...

A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

It is not the writer's task to...

It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Why the critics, like a flock ...

Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Great art is indefinable but t...

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

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Our suicidal poets (Plath, Ber...

Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

It is an author's most solemn ...

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 Paul Abbey 702 quotes

It is always dishonest for a r...

It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....