"Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cowÂardice is [..]."

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Source : John Vaillant (2010). “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”, p.16, Vintage

John Vaillant

#Cows Quotes #Sin Quotes

“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.”
“People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.”
“Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.”
“Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.”
“If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques your interest, and if you make it even longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.”
“Let's be realistic - 90% of superheroes are male. Personally, I prefer Superman, Batman and Spider-Man to Wonder Woman. Not that I don't like female superheroes, but watching male superheroes gives me a high.”
“Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It's superpowers with a cost. It's having to be the villain, and what do you do about that.”
“When you're tired of what you got, try me”

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