A man with the right scruffed-up beard and breadth of chest swaggered into the S and M dungeon that was my place of business, and twenty minutes and one grand later had my chin — still soft with the downy fluff of teen-girl skin — held steady in one paw while the other one flew at my face so hard and fast that I ceased to exist as the same collection of matter I had been the previous instant.
When Sarah’s mother, Penny, got sick four years into our marriage, we decided to move back to Mississippi, considering it penance for the sins of our youth. We signed a lease on a house, a white one-story on the historical register with a wraparound porch and angels, stars, and the moon painted on the transom above the front door.
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An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language. Martin Buber
An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Martin Buber
Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion. Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.
Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
Until a few years ago, a man who had no debts was considered virtuous, honest, and hardworking. Today, he’s an extraterrestrial. Whoever does not owe, does not exist. I owe, therefore I am. Eduardo Galeano
Until a few years ago, a man who had no debts was considered virtuous, honest, and hardworking. Today, he’s an extraterrestrial. Whoever does not owe, does not exist. I owe, therefore I am.
Eduardo Galeano
Man’s attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. Rachel Carson
Man’s attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
Rachel Carson
There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot. Derek Bok
There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
Derek Bok
When questioned by an anthropologist on what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, “Ours.” Vine Deloria Jr.
When questioned by an anthropologist on what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, “Ours.”
Vine Deloria Jr.
If it came from a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, don’t. Michael Pollan
If it came from a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, don’t.
Michael Pollan
It is an illusion to suppose that a dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and, above all, unsatisfied and fearful men. L. Susan Stebbing
It is an illusion to suppose that a dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and, above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.
L. Susan Stebbing
Government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to destroy. Molly Ivins
Government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to destroy.
Molly Ivins
When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I’m rich and I complain about inequality they say I’m a hypocrite. I’m beginning to think they just don’t want to talk about inequality. Russell Brand
When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I’m rich and I complain about inequality they say I’m a hypocrite. I’m beginning to think they just don’t want to talk about inequality.
Russell Brand