"That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter."

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Source : Gish Jen (2014). “Typical American”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Gish Jen

#House Quotes #Mind Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“It's like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women's bodies since they were in charge of pretty much everything else”

Source : Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.56, Seal Press
“Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.”

Source : "Attention Scum!", Episode 1, 2001.
“Anger is our reaction to the violation of our boundaries.”
“There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament.”

Source : "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.
“I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways.”
“The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together.”

Source : An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies Ch. 9, No. 20
“The last time I took drugs, I probably took more than anybody could survive.”
“The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.”

Source : Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.487

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