Rachel Cusk Quotes

Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

Rachel Cusk

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FamilyRealityHumanNeedImage

For the Yupik, all life was continuous, animal with human with 'spirit', and recognising that continuum allowed them to undergo transformations that we, locked into our own disappointingly Cartesian skins, find impossible even to imagine.

John Burnside

LifeAnimalImpossibleFindSpirit

I think that if the Democratic Party focuses on nominating who will make the best president, that's going to be a critical mistake. There's only one question at the end of the day, and that question is, Can the potential nominee beat Donald Trump?

Michael Avenatti

BestDayMistakeThinkEndParty

In America, where no one judged or supervised her, where my father was too busy eating her cooking to notice whether she was eating it, too, my mother found herself newly enchanted by the taste of food.

Anand Giridharadas

FatherMotherFoodCookingEating

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Soren Kierkegaard

LifeManRiskFirstTakeGreatest

I am curious about people. I want to know their secrets... because I am the last person to whom I would tell a secret; people tell me their secrets.

Ruth Rendell

I AmCuriousPeopleMeSecretsKnow

Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I'm not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while.

Ryan Adams

I AmPeopleThinkSometimesKind

We have developed a case of oil addiction in Saudi Arabia.

Mohammad bin Salman

AddictionOilCaseSaudiArabia

I am Chelsea Manning. I am female.

Chelsea Manning

I AmFemaleChelseaAm

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

Brad Pitt

ArchitectureDesignFurnitureScale

I love Greek food in the summer.

Antoni Porowski

LoveFoodSummerI LoveGreek

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Alice James

ExperienceMedicalDoctorHumanThan

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

Phillips Brooks

LiveManSeriouslyMoreWithinWho

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