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“If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.”
―
―
“Never blame the man: his hard-pressed
Ancestors formed him: the other anthropoid apes were safe
In the great southern rain-forest and hardly changed
In a million years: but the race of man was made
By shock and agony…
… a wound was made in the brain
When life became too hard, and has never healed.
It is there that they learned trembling religion and blood-
sacrifice,
It is there that they learned to butcher beasts and to slaughter
men,
And hate the world.”
―
Ancestors formed him: the other anthropoid apes were safe
In the great southern rain-forest and hardly changed
In a million years: but the race of man was made
By shock and agony…
… a wound was made in the brain
When life became too hard, and has never healed.
It is there that they learned trembling religion and blood-
sacrifice,
It is there that they learned to butcher beasts and to slaughter
men,
And hate the world.”
―
“We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world!”
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“That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.”
― Country Girl
― Country Girl
“Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.”
― The Heart of Mid-Lothian
― The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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