Edward Abbey Desert Solitaire Quotes & Sayings

She wanted, just now, to have a cell in a settlement-house, like a nun without the bother of a black robe, and be kind, and read Bernard Shaw, and enormously improve a horde of grateful poor. — Sinclair Lewis

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler. — Robert Schumann

The cactus of the high desert is a small grubby, obscure and humble vegetable associated with cattle dung and overgrazing, interesting only when you tangle with it the wrong way. Yet from this nest of thorns, this snare of hooks and fiery spines, is born once each year a splendid flower. It is unpluckable and except to an insect almost unapproachable, yet soft, lovely, sweet, desirable, exemplifying better than the rose among thorns the unity of opposites — Edward Abbey

If I could retrieve my words I would, grab them out of the sky and hide them where they can't be seen. — Leanne Hall

Deja vu is one of the weirdest things that happens to me. It boggles my mind. — Chino Moreno

Within these strangely specific conditions, everything is perfect. We are perfect. — Chuck Klosterman

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41) — Edward Abbey

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge. — Paulo Coelho