“Go to the meat market of a Saturday night and see the crowds of live bipeds staring up at the long rows of dead quadrupeds. Does not that sight take a tooth out of the cannibal's jaw? Cannibals? who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who naliest geese to the ground and feistiest on their bloated livers in thy paté-de-foie-gras.”
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“Desire! That’s the one secret of every man’s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.”
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“The merciful provisions of the law extend even to the lower animals, which cannot express in words their want and suffering.”
― The Desire of Ages
― The Desire of Ages
“Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.”
― The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
― The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
“How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
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