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When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with…

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Edward Hoagland has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation.…
It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.
To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising…
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or…
Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long…
Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they…
Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and…
Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or…
There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her…
The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is…
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway…

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Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama,… — John Lahr
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Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What… — Swami Vivekananda
In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie. — Dan Fogler
I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires. — Elizabeth Smart

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