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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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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
— William Blake
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I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just…
— Nicolas Cage
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I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.
— Nicolas Cage
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To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have…
— Humphry Davy
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Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now…
— Richard Owen
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What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I'm always keen to use my body in my work, so I'm looking forward to the motion capture for Smaug. Both Gollum…
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.
— Edmund Burke
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High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit — reptiles and eagles.
— Jean le Rond d'Alembert
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I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished…
— Unknown Author
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