"The dog writhing in the gutter, its back broken by a passing car, knows what it is to be alive. So too with the aged elk of the far north woods, slowly dying in the bitter cold of winter. The asphalt upon which the dog lies knows no pain. The snow upon which the elk has collapsed knows not the cold. But living beings do."

-- George Greenstein

#Dog Quotes #Pain Quotes #Lying Quotes

“I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.”
“Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.”

Source : "Caprice Bourret...the sexiest fish in the pond". www.askmen.com.
“Sing away sorrow, cast away care.”
“I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I would go to the local library and take out as many as I could, and then lock myself in the bedsit and read solidly for a week. I went for old books, the older the better--Tolstoy, Poe, Jacobean tragedies, a dusty translation of Laclos--so that when I finally resurfaced, blinking and dazzled, it took me days to stop thinking in their cool, polished, crystalline rhythms.”
“Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.”

Source : Andrei Codrescu (2006). “New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City”, p.195, Algonquin Books
“Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.”

Source : "Evolution in Action". Book by Julian S. Huxley, 1953.
“It looks tough for Palace when you see some of the results they've got coming up.”
“Someone who is comfortable, someone who is happy, you see them immediately sit up, stand up and feel better about themselves. If you're able to capture that in a picture, that's the most beautiful picture you can ever take of someone.”

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