"Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling,……" — Alex Shoumatoff
"Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms."
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16 Quotes by Alex Shoumatoff
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