"End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines."

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Karen Thompson Walker

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“Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.”

Source : Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.171, Shambhala Publications
“Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.”
“But Lunch Isn't That Bad, Really Once I get used to having to eat with two people instead of one. Two people who have known each other for such a long time that they practically speak in code. Two people who are always saying, "Remember the time when this happened?" and "Remember the time when that happened?" (Which, of course, I never do, because I wasn't there.) Well, okay, it is that bad. It sucks, even.”

Source : Sonya Sones (2007). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.207, Simon and Schuster
“I can now officially to the wife "It's work, darling" I have to watch racing. I have to watch every second. And actually, my wife who can't stand racing has got into it and once she understood the politics it becomes more interesting for non-racing people I think.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.”
“Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.”
“Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.”

Source : Friends' Intelligencer, Volume XI (p. 821), 1854.
“A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person”

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