Daniel Quinn Quotes

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• That evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do. Inside my apartment I'd felt inexplicably…
• Pity is always twinged with disgust.
• You've been in love with someone for a decade - someone who barely knows you're alive. You've done everything, tried everything to make this person…
• When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most famous and honored…
• We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine…
• Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they…
• The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted…
• The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.
• You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to…
• Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.
• With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?
• If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter…
• What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of…
• During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet--or they're not. Either way, it's…
• I didn't want a guru or a kung fu master or a spiritual director. I didn't want to become a sorcerer or learn the zen…
• The world was not made for any one species.
• People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever.…
• Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.
• You never actually know how you're going to handle a problem until you actually have it.
• From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.

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