"My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska."

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Becca Fitzpatrick

#Summer Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Nebraska Quotes

“All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise.”
“My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.”
“Yours is... il sent comme lavande." Is that French for 'You stink'?" It means 'lavender'." Huh." She sniffed at her wrist. "I thought I smelled more like a grape Popsicle.”
“If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?”
“how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.”
“Fans of these freshmen is about to get iffy while this youngin that you doubted is about to get busy.”
“It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.”

Source : Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
“Goodwin scowled at her cup. "With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.”

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