"But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent."

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Source : Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Eating People is Wrong”, p.172, Pan Macmillan

Malcolm Bradbury

#Fate Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense." "Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter, but it somehow works." He says "Somehow the mixture of two things is genius.”
“Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we're all perfectly human.”
“I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that's one of the reasons for campus unrest.”
“It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears”
“Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.”
“It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.”

Source : William Cowper Prime (1876). “I Go A-fishing”, p.143
“The purely material world seems to have more in common than we with the unchanging and everlasting years of the Great Creator. Yet we know that it is not so. In reality the rocks are less enduring than man. Each man's personal self will still survive for weal or woe, when another catastrophe shall have utterly changed the surface of this planet, and the elements shall have melted with fervent heat, and the earth also and all things that are therein shall have been burnt up.”
“Members of the press sometimes print things that aren't true.”

Source : Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008.

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