"Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't."

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Source : Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.146, A&C Black

Russell Hoban

#Silly Quotes #Loss Quotes #Animal Quotes

“Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth.”

Source : 'Sonnets to Delia' (1592) no. 54
“I really dig the writers, and I think they challenged me for the most part throughout the journey on the show. If you don't challenge me in a series sort of situation, boy, I couldn't be on it long.”
“It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.”

Source : "Why Not Have Our Own World?". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.
“I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably”
“He's my elvis. I idolize Nusrat, he's a god, too”
“This 51 Phoenix Racing team, I love them to death. They've got my back, I've got theirs.”
“The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.”
“By the late 70s conservatism was becoming more corporate on the one hand, more theocratic on the other. In reaction to the 60s, conservatism was more about order than freedom, more about conformity than singularity.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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