5 Quotes by Edward Abbey about book

  • Author Edward Abbey
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    People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book. Buy it, yes, but don't read it. [Regarding "The Fool's Progress"]

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  • Author Edward Abbey
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    There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

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    Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.

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

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