
“If you don't want to explode with rage, leave your memory alone, abstain from burrowing there.”
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
A collection of quotes on the topic of burrow, life, likeness, use.
“If you don't want to explode with rage, leave your memory alone, abstain from burrowing there.”
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (2010), "Epilogue," page 170
"Experience"
The Still Centre (1939)
The Question of Animal Awareness: Evolutionary Continuity of Mental Experience https://books.google.it/books?id=2iTTlLpYaNsC&pg=PA0 (Revised and Enlarged Edition, New York: The Rockefeller University Press, 1981), chapter 1.
“In the extraordinary ancestral compost heap of your unconscious mind, I have burrowed too long.”
Source: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 23
An Appeal to the Young (1880)
Review http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=1611 of Coyote Ugly (2000).
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“Before you can escape from your burrow you must know you are trapped. Then there's a chance.”
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
How to Shoot an Amateur Naturalist (1984)
"Big Fish, Little Fish", p. 29
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (1983)
From "Madrid: The City Simpatico," https://books.google.com/books?id=_DAcznaeZSIC&pg=PA76&dq=%22The+huge+church+is+burrowed%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAGoVChMI4aylrdTGxwIVRc2ACh0cbAXy#v=onepage&q=%22The%20huge%20church%20is%20burrowed%22&f=false in Boys' Life (February 1970), p. 76
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And this, he suddenly realized, was the heart of the problem. Habit. Habit was a stifling, warm blanket that threatened you with suffocation and lulled the mind into a state of perpetual nagging dissatisfaction. Habit meant the inability to escape from yourself, to change and develop . . .
pp. 132-133
Spider World: The Desert (1987)
Source: Ferret: The Reluctant King (2020), p. 139
Source: https://alexiskarpouzos.medium.com/justice-for-all-alexis-karpouzos-dbcf1b9896a9