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Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur?Katherine Applegate
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Anger is precious. A silverback uses his anger to maintain order and warn his troop of danger. When my father beat his chest, it was to say, Beware, listen, I am in charge. I am angry to protect you, because that is what I was born to do. Here in my domain, there is no one to protect.Katherine Applegate
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Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are.Katherine Applegate
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I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.Katherine Applegate
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Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.Katherine Applegate
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My family tree spreads wide as well. I am a great ape, and you are a great ape, and so are chimpanzees and orangutans and bonobos, all of us distant and distrustful cousins. I know this is troubling. I too find it hard to believe there is a connection across time and space, linking me to a race of ill-mannered clowns. Chimps. There's no excuse for them.Katherine Applegate
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My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us. The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be.Katherine Applegate