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“Their houses are the size of small airplane hangars; their carved”
― John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

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“She was shrinking into a horrible, ugly thing that no one wanted to see, or speak to, or have anything to do with at all, so she had to get plucked out like a weed, or crushed like a disgusting, mouldy crumb.”
― Susan Lewis

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“The most terrifying and important test for a human being is to be in absolute isolation,” he explained. “A human being is a very social creature, and ninety percent of what he does is done only because other people are watching. Alone, with no witnesses, he starts to learn about himself—who is he really?”
― John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

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“I’ve read a tiger’s not dangerous,
They say the tiger won’t attack
But one thing’s not clear to me.
Has he read this, too? Does he know?”
― John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

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“He takes two tea bags in a four-ounce cup and he doesn’t mince words: when a pair of earnest British journalists once asked him how he thought the tigers could be saved, his answer, “AIDS,” caught them off guard.
“But don’t you care about people?” one of them asked.
“Not really,” he replied. “Especially not the Chinese.”
― John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

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