"When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations."

-- George Eliot

#Animal Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ark Quotes

“There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.”
“The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must.”
“our domestic lives reflect the major trend that dominates the consumer marketplace today: an ever-increasing emphasis on variety and choice. ... we find ourselves inventing our lives as we go along, improvising in an effort to take advantage of the bewildering range of choices that we face.”
“It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?”

Source : Jeff Vandermeer (2007). “City of Saints and Madmen”, p.261, Spectra
“Be quiet. Part of your responsibility is to honour the quiet inside yourself so you can hear the call.”
“But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended”
“By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.”
“I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.”

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