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Animals used
to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as
they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they
are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of
olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become
a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me:
hurt it and you are hurting me.
-- Edward Hoagland
1932-, American Novelist,
Essayist
Animals are
stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized
because even the most acute of them have little leeway as
they play out their parts.
-- Edward Hoagland
1932-, American Novelist,
Essayist
Nothing to be
done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish.
The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on
earth to show how silly they aren't.
-- Russell Hoban
1925-, American Author
Animals often
strike us as passionate machines.
-- Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author,
Philosopher
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Be as a bird
perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath
her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has
wings.
-- Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet,
Dramatist, Novelist
From the
oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all
animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in
some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing
but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to
our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays
them to us to give us food for thought.
-- Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet,
Dramatist, Novelist
Cats and
monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
-- Henry James
1843-1916, American Author
Mankind's true
moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried
from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are
at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has
suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental
that all others stem from it.
-- Milan Kundera
1929-, Czech Author, Critic
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