“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
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“People always think they know other people, but they don’t. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won’t eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don’t know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel fucked up and sad for no reason at all.”
― Going Bovine
― Going Bovine
“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day”
― Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1–6
and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day”
― Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1–6
“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
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