“This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
“Every poet begins (however 'unconsciously') by rebelling more strongly against the fear of death than all other men and women do.”
― The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry
― The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry
“When going on a journey it is not just the strength of a man’s legs, but the provisions he prepares for the trip.”
― Blood River: The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country
― Blood River: The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country
“The child comes home and the parent puts the hooks in him. The old man, or the woman, as the case may be, hasn’t got anything to say to the child. All he wants is to have that child sit in a chair for a couple of hours and then go off to bed under the same roof. It’s not love. I am not saying that there is not such a thing as love. I am merely pointing to something which is different from love but which sometimes goes by the name of love. It may well be that without this thing which I am talking about there would not be any love. But this thing in itself is not love. It is just something in the blood. It is a kind of blood greed, and it is the fate of a man. It is the thing which man has which distinguishes him from the happy brute creation. When you got born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a hame trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can’t get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can.”
― All the King's Men
― All the King's Men
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