"When sociobiologists start ***** in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start seeming more persuasive."

-- Laura Kipnis

#Dinner Guests Quotes #Backyards Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Life is a freak. Thatâ€™s its hope and glory.”
“Changing the world, one exclamation point at a time.”
“Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane ofthe grass; the diluted reflection of the sky together with the fleeting sight of the reeds; the Negresses fill their dripping gourds and their red clay containers; the song of the washerwomen; the gorged fields the tall crops ripening.”
“Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. December 1, 2010.
“I talked about my family, my family's so important.”
“If it turns out that physical death truly results in the absolute cessation of consciousness, then it would seem to me that in the grand truth of things, every human who has ever lived, who has not committed every minute of their lives toward an effort in finding a cure for mortality, has died as an utter and miserable failure.”
“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”
“I was using Twitter a lot on my phone, and was realising there was a massive gap between the link on the tweet and the full story. If you could come up with a summary layer to show in Twitter, that would be awesome.”

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