Source: Difficulties with Girls (1988), Ch. 19, p. 274
“Nothing was better for you than humiliation, for there was nothing you felt more deeply.”
Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer
J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 130
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)
Rudyard Kipling book Plain Tales from the Hills
Watches of the Night.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)
Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer
Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (2006)
“A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Will Durant book The Story of Civilization
The Story of Civilization (1935–1975), I - Our Oriental Heritage (1935)
Tom Regan book Empty Cages
Were cows so different from cats and dogs that there were two moral standards, one that applies to cows, another that applies to cats and dogs? Were pigs so different? Were any of the animals I ate so different?
Source: Empty Cages (2004), Ch. 2
John Buchan (1875–1940) British politician
Space (1912)
Context: Remember his mind and no other part of him lived in his new world. He said it gave him an odd sense of detachment to sit in a room among people, and to know that nothing there but himself had any relation at all to the infinite strange world of Space that flowed around them. He would listen, he said, to a great man talking, with one eye on the cat on the rug, thinking to himself how much more the cat knew than the man.
