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Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life..."
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. Kurt Vonnegut
Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static. Bell Hooks
Shall I confess it, Mr. Hartright? I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise. Wilkie Collins
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism. Carl Sagan
Her life seemed to her a great engineering work scarcely begun. Lately more excavation than construction had occurred. She had lost a sense of her own invincibility. In that way she was no longer archetypically American. Marge Piercy
I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say - Yes; and act like other people. Jean-Paul Sartre
I do not believe the fable that men read travel books to escape from reality: they read to escape into it, from a crazy wonderland of armaments, cant, political speeches at once insincere and illiterate, propaganda, and social injustice which the lunacy of humanity has constructed over a period of years. Alex Comfort
Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them. Gene Wolfe
Any contractor who would construct a flat-roofed, two-storey building in Northern New Hampshire was enough of a moron to not know how many assholes a human being had. John Irving
Imaginary’ universes are so much more beautiful than this stupidly constructed ‘real’ one; and most of the finest products of an applied mathematician’s fancy must be rejected, as soon as they have been created, for the brutal but sufficient reason that they do not fit the facts. G. H. Hardy
The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart. Marsha Norman
... a nervous, undernourished girl who continually looked down the front of her gown as though there was some sort of construction project going on under her clothes. Philip Roth
Louis de Bernieres quote: "every man needs an obsessio in order to enjoy life, and it was..."
...every man needs an obsessio in order to enjoy life, and it was so much the better if that obsession was constructive. Louis de Bernieres
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the..."
Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones. Ludwig Wittgenstein
There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time. Jane Jacobs

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