The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with lang…

Edward Abbey
565 citations
The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.30, RosettaBooks
Reading Sadness
15

More Author Quotes

It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness … ▶
You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.19, RosettaBooks
I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.26, RosettaBooks
Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.28, RosettaBooks
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. ✨ Edward Abbey (1968). Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness

The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.30, RosettaBooks

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes