"Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated."

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Source : "Fat is a prejudice issue" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2012.

Susie Orbach

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“The human being is a skin-covered petrie dish.”
“The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.”
“It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.”
“I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever.”
“It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms of beauty. But so sure as it is that men live not by bread, but by ideas, so sure is it that the future of the world lies in the hands of those who are able to carry the interpretation of nature a step further than their predecessors.”
“Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.”
“Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us.”
“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”

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