K. A. Applegate Quotes

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

K. A. Applegate

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• When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Child
  • Animal
  • Circus