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Turtle Diary
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Three-hundred-pound turtles navigate the ocean and come ashore to be slaughtered for the five pounds of cartilage that gets sold to the soup-makers.
“When the world you know is out of reach, nothing is more welcome than a measurable reminder that it still exists.”
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― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
“The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“Forgetting is a kind of betrayal, even if it’s what happens to all grief. Time wears everything smoother as it grinds past, I suppose.”
― A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
― A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
“She's put him out like a cat a million times, but like a cat he has a habit of slinking back and curling up into the warm corners of her mind.”
― Himself
― Himself
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