"Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers"

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Source : "New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies". Book by Rick Dolphijn, Iris van der Tuin, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2012.

Karen Barad

#Suffering Quotes #Desire Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.”
“Booze is flowing all unknowing; grandma downs a few, smiles and giggles happily enjoying her new brew.”
“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.”
“If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too well, and we don't have any other instruction.”
“A couple days before the stunts, if I'm doing something particularly dangerous, I will go over every worst-case scenario in my head, like this could happen, this could happen, this could happen, this could happen. I try to think about that to where it's ingrained in me.”
“Jason Rezaian is finally headed home. He's the correspondent for The Washington Post who was held in Iran for a year and half while U.S. diplomats, his family and his editors worked to win his release. Rezaian was one of the four Americans released from prison in Tehran in a swap for seven Iranians held in U.S. prisons.”
“I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.”
“We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others based upon their own principles and their own value system rather than their moods or anger.”

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