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Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
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I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now?…
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[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you…
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Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance
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If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood…
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How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need…
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Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by…
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Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in…
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If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.
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The writer’s life is a life of revisions.
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When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world…
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If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into…
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Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it.
— Winston Churchill
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Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by…
— H. Jay Dinshah
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A fly is as untamable as a hyena.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Feeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart.
— David Wojnarowicz
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Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams.…
— J. C. Hutchins
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With a haircut like that and a face like that, it looks like Billy Ray Cyrus went and had sex with a…
— Dwayne Johnson
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Of all the creatures in the world that really frighten me - the hyena in Africa, the great white shark - leopard…
— Lewis Gordon
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Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener.
— Ian Dury
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Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger.
— John Harvey Kellogg
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My father used to call me the laughing hyena.
— Phyllis Diller
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