"Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent," said Dusty. "But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person." Smiling with delight, Ahriman said, "Oh, really, not accurately descriptive? Be careful housepainter. Your genes are showing. What if I were a cannibal?"

-- Dean Koontz

#Orange Quotes #What If Quotes #Pork Quotes

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”
“I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves; and I may add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a physical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect begin to germinate in lower forms of life.”
“It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.”
“It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.”
“Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.”

Source : Denise Levertov (1992). “New & Selected Essays”, p.155, New Directions Publishing
“When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!”
“Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised weapon. 'Normal' or 'legitimate' warfare is just as destructive of inanimate objects and enormously so of human lives.”
“The Indian Bureau system is wrong. The only way to adjust wrong is to abolish it, and the only reform is to let my people go. After freeing the Indian from the shackles of government supervision, what is the Indian going to do: leave that with the Indian, and it is none of your business.”

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