# Quote — Tom Holt, Expecting Someone Taller

> And what do they like doing best of all? They like taking off all their clothes—clothes over which they have expended so much effort and ingenuity—and doing biologically necessary but profoundly undignified things to other human beings. Any pig or spider can do that, it’s the easiest thing in the world. But you bloody humans, who can do so much that no other species could ever do, you can’t do that efficiently. You agonize over it. You make an incredible fuss over it. You get it all wrong, you make each others’ lives miserable, you write dreary letters and take overdoses. You even invent a medicine that deliberately makes the whole process futile. My God, what a species!

- Author: [Tom Holt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt.md)
- Book: [Expecting Someone Taller](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/expecting-someone-taller.md)
- Page: 159
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/expecting-someone-taller/and-what-do-they

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> Suddenly, she was not pretty at all; she looked like a thousand-year-old teenager who wanted something she knew she couldn’t have.

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> “Humans!” laughed the male duck. “And it’s the likes of you run the world. No wonder the rivers are full of cadmium.”

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> And, like many missionaries, she was not above a little persecution in the cause of the communication of Enlightenment.

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