"It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature."

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Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.267, eBookIt.com

Alice Meynell

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“You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.”
“I was an elementary school teacher.”
“I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.”
“My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus.”
“Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his teeth, and plunging his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the steaming blood; when fresh from the deed of horror let him revert to the irresistible instincts of nature that would rise in judgment against it, and say, Nature formed me for such work as this. Then, and then only, would he be consistent.”
“Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.”
“Just by looking at nature, I feel as if I'm being swallowed up into it, and in that moment I get the sensation that my body's now a speck, a speck from long before I was born, a speck that is melting into nature herself.”
“A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.”

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