“The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings.”
― Animal Liberation
― Animal Liberation
“And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.”
― To Say Nothing of the Dog
― To Say Nothing of the Dog
“A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design involving the entire course of history and all of time and space that, for some unfathomable reason, chose to work out its designs with cats and croquet mallets and penwipers, to say nothing of the dog. And a hideous piece of Victorian artwork. And us.”
― To Say Nothing of the Dog
― To Say Nothing of the Dog
“The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.”
― To Say Nothing of the Dog
― To Say Nothing of the Dog
“Finch picked up one of the ancient fax-mags and brought it over to me.
"I don't need anything to read," I said. "I'll just sit here and eavesdrop along with you."
"I thought you might sit on the mag," he said. "It's extremely difficult to get soot out of chintz.”
― To Say Nothing of the Dog
"I don't need anything to read," I said. "I'll just sit here and eavesdrop along with you."
"I thought you might sit on the mag," he said. "It's extremely difficult to get soot out of chintz.”
― To Say Nothing of the Dog
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