"I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals."

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Source : Paul Fussell (1992). “Class: A Guide Through the American Status System”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

Paul Fussell

#Baby Quotes #Book Quotes #Whales Quotes

“We're interested by public personas and private personas, otherwise we wouldn't put on with actors rambling on with the same kind of stuff, over and over again, saying variations of the same thing. I'm always amazed by how fascinated people still are by actors because it's the same version of events that actors describe, all the time.”
“To be creative, you have to be wrong most of the time.”
“I wanna roll it, roll it, roll it, roll it. Is all I wanna do, for you baby. Girl, it's something kind of sexy. Goin' on about you babe.”
“He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides”

Source : Judy Grahn (1982). “The queen of wands: poetry”
“A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.”
“We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.”

Source : Interview with Rosanne Skirble, learningenglish.voanews.com. January 12, 2005.
“And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.”
“You...you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?" What? Oh...yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. How do you like that for a declension, young man?”

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