Primal Instincts Quotes

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Edmund Morris
“He has,in short,reached his peak as a hunter,exuberantly altered from the pale,overweight statesman of ten months ago. Africa's way of reducing every problem of existence to dire alternatives-shoot or starve,kill or be killed,shelter or suffer,procreate or count for nothing-has clarified his thinking,purged him of politics and its constant search for compromise.”
Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt

Talismanist Giebra
“Art is a mythical beast. It takes out all your primal instincts to awaken your dormant myth.”
Talismanist Giebra, Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.

Yann Martel
“for, of course, with all animals, including us, to stare is an aggressive act.”
Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“As the hunters faded into the darkness, Curtis called out, “I want her alive, remember! I will kill her after I humiliate her. If a man kills her, I will kill that man. Remember, Challenger will see you first. She will hear you first, and she will smell you!”
Jerry Gill, Vic: Bloody Reprisal

“Most people do not know, or cannot accept what they are, and that this present reality is all that there is. The past is just a memory, and the future merely an expectation. There is only one continuous present moment, the now.

This explains concepts such as religion, the afterlife, and reincarnation.

It explains why women butcher their bodies, with cosmetic surgery and breast implants.

It also explains why people make unrealistic promises when they marry, though they are not swans, are not biologically monogamous.

They deny primal instincts, such as violence, hate, and war, naturally exist inside them. For they are, the great pretenders.”
Robert Black