Molly Carkeet

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7 quotes curated by Molly Carkeet:

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
“Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
Tagged: MirandaJuly, ShortStories, Time
“To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
— Vladek Spiegelman, Maus
Tagged: GraphicNovel, Holocaust, LifeandDeath, Memoir
“Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.”
— Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Tagged: Fordism, HenryFord, HumanRobots, Industrialization, TheIndustrialRevolution
“You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.”
— Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Tagged: Globalization, Immigration
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense. ”
— Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice
Tagged: JaneAusten, TheHumanCondition