"[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin's lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it. This, I suppose, is why we are so wonderful and can make movies and electric razors and wireless sets - and guns with which to shoot the elephant, the hare, clay pigeons, and each other."

-- Beryl Markham

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“Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple to a heathen god where the word of God is read.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 34, 1895.
“The experienced pastor will recognize to which situation humor belongs and to which belongs sobriety.”
“Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?”
“We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.”
“What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying from the want of her.”

Source : Jed Rubenfeld (2007). “The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel”, p.235, Macmillan
“I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has left an instrument it becomes its own master, a free and independent creature of sound, weightless, incorporeal and perfectly in tune with the universe.”

Source : Walter Moers (2008). “The City of Dreaming Books”, p.122, The Overlook Press
“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
“I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.”

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