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"In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other."
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"In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other."
"Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty."
"Some kids also think it makes them coolWhen they pick on other kids, being cruel."
"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt."
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable."
"Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves."
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"That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world."
"As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I dont wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere."
"Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals."
"If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?"
"The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role."
"As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day."
"The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint."
"There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind."
"The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law."
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