"I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals."

-- Gary L. Francione

#Animal Quotes #Institutions Quotes #Existence Quotes

“I don't want to have a song like 'My Humps' and it be sagging down, so I pay attention to that area. A lot.”
“I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan”
“You cannot separate the onset of a disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.”
“You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.”
“You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.”

Source : Mary Downing Hahn (2009). “The Dead Man in Indian Creek”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.”
“If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.”

Source : Nelson DeMille (1978). “By the rivers of Babylon: a novel”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“A lot of the people I was writing with think a lot more about lyrics and a lot more about the details from the beginning. That kind of thinking made me a little self-conscious because I was suddenly having to judge what I was doing early on in the process.”

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