No, it's human, Curran said. That's the problem. People, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It's easy...
Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.
Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.
Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.
Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better
People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.
Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
The Folk doubtlessly learned this lesson long ago. They do not need to deceive humans. Humans will deceive themselves.
The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.
The male frog in mating season, said Crake, makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with...
The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Mar...
The vastest things are those we may not learn.We are not taught to die, nor to be born,Nor how to burnWith love.How pitiful is our enforced returnTo those small things we are the masters of.
These humans—they are cruel monsters. Liars. Deceitful. For the first time, I want to hurt them the way they hurt me. This is so unfair. My body feels numb, my energy spent, my mind deceived and angry...
Walking was not fast enough so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing was not fast enough, so we rolled merrily along on long metal t...
Well, anyhow, the practical outcome of all these damn democratic ideas, is that men of our quality -- yes, damn it! we have a quality -- excuse themselves from the hard and thankless service they owe...
When Man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear. But not before.
When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.
Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is condemned to surrealistic effort. Whoever goes in search of humans will find acrobats.
You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?
You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize.
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