“A pig is a pig," said the stranger, "and a pig-boy is a pig-boy.”
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965), Chapter 1 (Ellidyr)
“A pig among people is a pig, he tells himself, but a pig among pigs is people.”
—
Theodore Sturgeon
,
book
Venus Plus X
Section 38 (p. 118)
Venus Plus X (1960)
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