Teju Cole
Author, Photographer
"I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly."
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Hippo
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Jack Kerouac
Novelist, Poet
"And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!"
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently."
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered."
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"Believe that you may understand."
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"The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind."
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