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How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared released a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt? What are the best things and the worst things in your life and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?”
— Ray Bradbury
People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”
– Greta Thunberg
Animals are not lesser humans; they are other worlds.”
— Barbara Noske, Humans and Other Animals (via Randomitus)
Until we start measuring what we value, we will continue to overvalue what we measure.”
— Kim Goodwin, Offscreen #21 (via Patrick Rhone)
“So how might one learn to love another without reducing the other to recognizability, without fixing the other to a single unchangeable name?
Or should it go the other way around: must the lover consent to being forever misrecognized? Is allowing oneself to be transfixed a fundamental part of loving and being loved?”
— Elvia Wilk, Ask Before You Bite
Nevertheless the difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.”
Lisa Marie Blair 