By the age of three ... I was already an addicted reader. I still crave daily immersion in experience other than my own; (it needn't be more pleasant, exciting or illuminating -- merely other) and I still fall into books as though into catalepsy.
The bullfighter who torments a bull to death and then castrates it of an ear has neither proved nor increased his own virility; he has merely demonst… - Brigid Brophy
The bullfighter who torments a bull to death and then castrates it of an ear has neither proved nor increased his own virility; he has merely demonst…
- Brigid Brophy
"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to … - Brigid Brophy
"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to …
To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century. - Brigid Brophy
To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.
The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty? - Brigid Brophy
The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?
To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish… - Brigid Brophy
To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish…
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slav… - Brigid Brophy
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slav…
I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals. - Brigid Brophy
I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.
We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over. - Brigid Brophy
We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.
A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans. - Brigid Brophy
A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.
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