"Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me."

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Source : Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”

Edward Hoagland

#Running Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Animal Quotes

“In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.”
“If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations...”
“Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.”
“A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them right in the eye.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.”

Source : 1984 In the NewYorker,10 Dec.
“The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.”
“I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.”

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