Howard Becker Outsiders Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes feelings are like that - not positive, not negative, just a lot. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis. — Damon Galgut

Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away. — Edward Hirsch

I was descended from a handful of fertility deities, but I guess I really hadn't understood what that meant. I mean, there was fertile and then there was being able to get pregnant while you were already pregnant. — Laurell K. Hamilton

We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted. — Theodore Roosevelt

With a perseverance spirit, you withstand any situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. — Noam Chomsky