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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes,…
— Catherine Marshall
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A bit of advice: never read a pop-up book about giraffes.
— Sean Lock
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I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk.
— Michael Klaper
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Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder…
— Thomas French
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Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.
— Sid Waddell
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Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable…
— David Attenborough
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If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.
— Brian Swimme
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All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not…
— Cynthia Heimel
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I very much like Kenya. It's hard to beat the Masai Mara and the idea of ballooning across it. I have a…
— Mark Burnett
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Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.
— Ogden Nash
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We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies…
— Joanna Lumley
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