"I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead."

-- Martha Beck

#Ecosystems Quotes #Earth Quotes #Helping Quotes

“I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s?”
“It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you're reading for a while.”
“I'd never really found a place in the outside world, but had stayed away too long to fit in at home.”

Source : Chris Offutt (2003). “The Same River Twice: A Memoir”, p.177, Simon and Schuster
“It's different for every writer. It's not a career for anyone who needs security. It's a career for gamblers. It's a career of ups and downs.”
“The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.”
“Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.”
“What I love is a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. I'll just have peanut butter and bananas, then peanut butter and pickles. Peanut butter and chocolate I don't recommend.”
“Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated, and quite on his own can respond dramatically to what is proffered him. In contacts between such deities there is no need for middlemen; each of these gods is able to serve as his own priest.”

Source : Erving Goffman (2005). “Interaction Ritual: Essays in Face to Face Behavior”, p.95, AldineTransaction

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