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“Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer.”

Men May Voice Hours Animal Silence Darkness Broken Neighborhood Wilderness Now And Then Deer Do Not Fear Wilder Coyotes

Book:Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail

Source: Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail

“Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.”

Mean Earth Animal Havens Broken Amazing Things

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant, an inanimate object, indeed lost to us until the day, which for some never arrives, when we find that we pass near the tree, or come to possess the object which is their prison. Then they quiver, call us, and as soon as we have recognized them, the spell is broken. Freed by us, they have vanquished death and return to live with us.”

Soul Death Belief Lost Animal Tree Objects Broken Return Prison Reasonable Spells Trapped Inferiors Departed Celtic Quiver Inanimate Objects

Author:Marcel Proust

“On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f ) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.”

Ifs Certain Animal Written Dog Flower Hair Broken Fine Pages Mad Distance Chinese Divided Pigs Brushes Fabulous Emperor Mermaid Camels Classification Encyclopedia Vases Stray Dogs

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV a lot, and they were allowed to misbehave a lot. Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure. Norman Mailer and Vidal, the same thing. The bestselling writers now, there's no great animal energy with them.”

Energy Animal Broken Extraordinary Truman

Author:James Wolcott

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

“He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment he thought of climbing up its cracked and broken stone, and then from its summit screaming down at the silent city as a child might scream at a chained animal.”

Children Moments Might Faces White Animal Cities Expression Broken Stones Silent Climbing Scream Towers Summit Repose Cracked Chained Climbing Up

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.”

Men Animal Broken Type Following Tribes Wild Animal Respectability Rugged

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.”

Men Kind Animal Broken Plant Preserves Elites Minerals Being Broken

Book:Gravity's Rainbow

Source: Gravity's Rainbow