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"I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages."
"I like to think I'm some savage realist."
"The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery."
"Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage."
"I am only a little lion, child, and I vow, I shall not savage you."
"Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust."
"Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder."
"Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage."
"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."
"The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage."
"The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom."
"The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually; they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not."
"I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints of the old pulp novels from thirties and forties: Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger."
"All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right."
"Every savage can dance."
"Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies." Mr. Darcy: "Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world; every savage can dance."
"The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation"
"Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?"
"Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage"
