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  • #1
    George R.R. Martin
    “Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #2
    Anton Chekhov
    “One should not put a loaded rifle onto the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #3
    Anaïs Nin
    “The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
    Anais Nin

  • #4
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

  • #5
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

  • #6
    Temple Grandin
    “I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.”
    Temple Grandin

  • #7
    “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
    Paul McCartney

  • #8
    Michael Pollan
    “This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture.”
    Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

  • #9
    David Foster Wallace
    “Is it possible that future generations will regard our present agribuisness and eating practices in much the same way we now view Nero's entertainments or Mengele's experiments? My own initial reaction is that such a comparison is hysterical, extreme - and yet the reason it seems extreme to me appears to be that I believe animals are less morally important than human behings; and when it comes to defending such a belief, even to myself, I have to acknowledge that (a) I have an obvious selfish interest in this belief, since I like to eat certain kinds of animals and want to be able to keep doing it, and (b) I haven't succeeded in working out any sort of personal ethical system in which the belief is truly defensible instead of just selfishly convenient.”
    David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
    Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #11
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #12
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer

  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    Mark Twain

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    Mark Twain

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    Henry Miller
    “Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
    Henry Miller

  • #18
    Henry Miller
    “Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.”
    Henry Miller

  • #19
    Henry Miller
    “Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.”
    Henry Miller

  • #20
    Charles Bukowski
    “You have to die a few times before you can really
    live.”
    Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

  • #21
    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    William Shakespear, Hamlet

  • #22
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “She was not quite what you would call refined.
    She was not quite what you would call unrefined.
    She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.”
    Mark Twain

  • #24
    David Foster Wallace
    “Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.
    It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
    Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.”
    David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

  • #25
    David Foster Wallace
    “The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death.

    It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:

    "This is water."

    "This is water."

    It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.”
    David Foster Wallace

  • #26
    David Foster Wallace
    “Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.”
    David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

  • #27
    Richard  Adams
    “All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”
    Richard Adams, Watership Down

  • #28
    Richard  Adams
    “My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
    Richard Adams, Watership Down

  • #29
    Richard  Adams
    “Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.”
    Richard Adams, Watership Down
    tags: evil

  • #30
    Richard  Adams
    “Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.”
    Richard Adams, Watership Down



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