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Only the Animals QUOTES

Only the Animals QUOTES

1 " But it prompted me to remember something, a conversation I’d overheard between Officers Bloomington and Mishin about the persecution complex that afflicts most humans, and made me wonder: Why do you feel persecuted by us? From the mild feeling of being teased without your consent all the way to the other extreme of the terror of recognition, that we might expose you for what you truly are. What use is a sense of self if all it does is make you feel that self to be constantly under siege? "

― Ceridwen Dovey , Only the Animals

2 " In a century during which many people have lost the religious framework of fatalism, it seems books have become signs to interpret and follow ― this book has come into my life for a reason, the author is speaking to me and to me alone. And this, in a strange way, leads to people becoming evangelical about books. You must read this, they preach, forgetting that it was the way they stumbled serendipitously upon the book ― finding it abandoned on the seat of a coach, or dusty in the attic, or neglected in a dark stack at the library ― that was partially responsible for its powers. "

― Ceridwen Dovey , Only the Animals