Brigid Brophy Quotes

#1. 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 slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.

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#2. 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.

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#3. The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.

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#4. I told some imprecisely imagined interlocutor that each year I hoped to have outgrown being moved by the autumn and each year I hadn't

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#5. The fact that there are bigger injustices and wrongs doesn't make it right to sacrifice an innocent monkey. It doesn't alter the case at all.

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#6. Sentimentalist is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse than to be cruel, which it isn't.

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#7. O I'm so afraid that it's true about to travel hopefully being better than to arrive. It might be all in the quest, all in the search, all in the anticipation. When it came, there might be nothing there.

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#8. To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.

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#9. I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

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#10. Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

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#11. 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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#12. The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?

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#13. 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.

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