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“What?” barked Clare’s voice. “Nice to speak to you too, sir,” Porter said. “It’s not nice though, is it? I hear your voice and I’m instantly annoyed. It’s Porter, I think, what’s he screwed up this time? The suspect shot himself, a dog bit
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“Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now. A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass.”
― Watership Down
― Watership Down
“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
― Watership Down
― Watership Down
“That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.”
― Watership Down
― Watership Down
“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.”
― Watership Down
― Watership Down
“You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?”
― Watership Down
― Watership Down
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